Classical Quotes

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.

Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

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

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.