Classical Quotes
639 quotes by 529 authors
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Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what…
— Charles Hazlewood
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Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
— Charles Hazlewood
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Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.
— David Lee
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Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
— Christian McKay
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I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wanted to be in a rock-and-roll band,…
— John Tesh
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As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical…
— Roy Harper
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I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My…
— Annette Bening
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I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
— Felicity Kendal
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My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.
— Sara Zarr
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I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
— Wang Leehom
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The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me,…
— Alex Lifeson
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I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I…
— Anna Mouglalis
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It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or…
— Robert Coppola Schwartzman
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
— Oscar Isaac
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What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
— Ian McLagan
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I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of…
— Karen DeCrow
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We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.
— Stjepan Hauser
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Of course, there will always be, you know, conservative classical people who will judge you, but you know, who cares about them?
— Luka Sulic
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Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned a lot by…
— Luka Sulic
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Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.
— Luka Sulic
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