Classical Quotes

639 quotes by 529 authors

We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to use it in… — Luka Sulic
I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those… — Trevor Rabin
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting… — Philippe Petit
I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic. — Ha-Joon Chang
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it. — Simon McBurney
You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear. — Kiesza
Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only… — Doc Severinsen
My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I… — Kevin Johnson
I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard… — John Fahey
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have… — Lorin Maazel
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began… — Henry Flynt
Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn… — John Abercrombie
In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
I also like Western classical music and jazz. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less… — Skitch Henderson
I had had a classical education prior to that. — Skitch Henderson
He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird… — Matthew Sweet
Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical. — Jim Coleman
Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland,… — Joe Slovo
Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively… — Wilhelm Ostwald

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