Classical Music Quotes
- Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in… — Allen Ginsberg
- As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always… — Lesley Garrett
- Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background… — Gordon Getty
- I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music. — Satyajit Ray
- Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz. — Alan Vega
- Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and… — Bobby McFerrin
- Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really… — John Corigliano
- If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's… — A. R. Rahman
- It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. — Gustavo Dudamel
- That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard… — Unknown Author
- I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It… — Nigel Kennedy
- I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music… — Gary Lucas
- Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet. — Benjamin Zander
- But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical… — Michael Tilson Thomas
- I love listening to classical music. — Katharine McPhee
- I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven. — Joan Rivers
- Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music. — Sonny Rollins
- I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about… — Itzhak Perlman
- I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my… — Marianne Faithfull
- I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art. — Serj Tankian