Classical Quotes

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Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a… — Horace Silver
I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in… — Herbie Hancock
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student… — James Loeb
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was… — Sam Houston
Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate...you can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion. — Alain Ducasse
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible… — Gary Burton
Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it. It's… — Andre Rieu
I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately… — Ahmet Ertegun
I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my… — John Cale
I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyoneâ€™s entertainment. It has been my hope that through live concerts, motion pictures,… — Jose Iturbi
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture… — Geoffrey Nunberg
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family… — Malcolm Arnold
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. — Eberhard Weber
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. — Timothy West
Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity, not of ecclesiology… — David Bosch
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life. — Questlove
But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and… — Van Cliburn
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious… — Robert E. Ornstein
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate,… — George Saintsbury
Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things. — Eric Carr

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