Classical Music Quotes

170 Classical Music quotes by 137 unique authors

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. — Tatiana Maslany
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a… — Unknown Author
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. — Gary Oldman
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. — Satyajit Ray
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. — Maurice Sendak
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was… — Nina Simone
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide… — Michael Tilson Thomas
Music is the shorthand of emotion. — Leo Tolstoy
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different… — Paul Weller
Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill. — Sheri L. Dew
On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played… — Walter Moers
There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never… — Alan Hollinghurst
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. — Vera Nazarian
I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your mother is going… — Helen Fielding
I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing. — Slash
I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music. — Yngwie Malmsteen
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. — Jimmy Page
Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. — Frank Zappa

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