Art Quote by Serj Tankian

There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse…

— Tom Morello

There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not like a…

— Simon Rattle

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are…

— Zubin Mehta

When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record,…

— Jimmy Page

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

“My gaze returns to earth and when it does, it’s her eyes I see. Not the way I used to see them—around every corner,…

— Gayle Forman

I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have…

— Paul Smoker

All of us in the field must remain constantly vigilant and fight against all types of inappropriate and hurtful behavior and continue the essential…

— Andris Nelsons

Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of…

— George Duke

You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for…

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that.…

— John Abercrombie