Classical Quotes

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

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 means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I had had a classical education prior to that.

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

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 different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.

I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.