I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs. — Don Dokken Copy Share Image
Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music. — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces. — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all. — Stjepan Hauser Copy Share Image
Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise… — Caroline Corr Copy Share Image
I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, but I am also always trying… — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is… — Van Cliburn Copy Share Image
I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen,… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing… — Antonia Thomas Copy Share Image
I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s. — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz. — Corbin Bleu Copy Share Image
Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
I trained in London as a classical actor, but you've no idea what way your career will go. — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
“This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays? to give a ground of meaning to our pain?” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.' — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Listening to classical music. I thought it might be soothing, but it’s really irritating and has no proper tune.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I was able to turn to classical music many people, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have. — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
I don't run after money or fame. The only thing I have always wished is to be a classical singer. — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical… — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
