Classical Quotes

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

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.

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 trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

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.

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.

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.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.