The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version. — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10… — Carlo Grante Copy Share Image
Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Our music was, like, Doors-y, but trying to be classical. We all took music classes and tried writing songs, and when we… — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite.… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else.… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be… — Jim Sullivan Copy Share Image
As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
I'm not a classical player. I don't want to be a classical player. I love to improvise, because things happen that never… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either. — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way. — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I do like classical music, and soft rock, and jazz, which I never listened to when I was 15. Now I like… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on. — Miguel Copy Share Image
Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids. — David Lee Copy Share Image
I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society. — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
It's wonderful doing concerts in places like New York and London, but I feel a responsibility to also bring my work home,… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules… — Andre Rieu Copy Share Image
I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
When I was 9, I got guitar lessons in my school, just classical guitar. I didn't really like it much. Nowadays, I… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
