Classical Music Quotes
170 Classical Music quotes by 137 unique authors
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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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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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I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
— Felicity Kendal
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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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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
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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
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My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
— Simon McBurney
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You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.
— Kiesza
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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
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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
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I also like Western classical music and jazz.
— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage,…
— Pierre Schaeffer
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We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music…
— Arto Lindsay
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I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many…
— Arto Lindsay
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The classical music world is so snobbish.
— Andre Rieu
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I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I…
— Diane Kruger
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I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.
— Birdy
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I was born out of classical music.
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Classical Music Quotes
137 authors contributed a total of 170 Classical Music Quotes, led by these top contributors: