Classical music Quote by Stephen Hough Download Open image “Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.” — Stephen Hough ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Classical music Four-year Music Terms
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. — Steve Hackett Copy Share Image
Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human. — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
One of the things that touches me most when I play for an audience is that although we may be unable to communicate in… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Unlike sport, music is not about winning or keeping fit or promoting your town or school; it's about celebrating, to a level approaching ecstasy,… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
In Britten or Berg, there's a tension between the sweet and the sour, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the tonal and the atonal,… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence. There are… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Before the 20th century, to be a successful musician was merely to be one who was employed. A few, such as Liszt, Paderewski and… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry: I've always… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
If I'm walking along the street, ideas come. Ideas about things that I'm interested in. I've jotted them down in the past on bits… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate. — Guler Sabanci Copy Share Image
It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
You know how some people seem to think that their love for classical music makes them spiritual or at least something quite special? And… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
I have been exposed to different kinds of Marathi and Hindi music, classical music, and English songs since childhood. — Urmila Matondkar Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Obviously there are pieces of classical music that are some of the most beautiful music ever written, for me anyway is a lot of… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
“Finally, every society develops a system of aesthetic standards that get manifested in everything from decorative art, music, and dance to the architecture and… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
