Classical Music Quotes - Page 11

• Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession.

  Herbie Hancock

  Kids, Impact, Years

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• My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in any music but, he hang on to continue training at the Academy of Music... however, I never mentioned to my teachers that I trained myself at weekends in clubs.

  Richard Clayderman

  Teacher, Father, Mean

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• Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

  Dave Barry

  People, Musician, Twenties

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• I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

  Ledisi

  Grateful, Made

  "Ledisi: A Singer's Second Life". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011.

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• I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

  Danny Fox

  Simple, Piano, Stuff

  "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

  Seymour Stein

  Stars, Rocks, Tchaikovsky

  Source: thequietus.com

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• With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, People, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk.

  Stuart Hamm

  College, Weather, Play

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• I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips that meant a lot to me. Maybe there were places I have been where nice things have happened. I had a vision of making my life a work of art and I was looking for people who also felt that way.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Nice, Moving

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• Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.'

  Leighton Ford

  Morning, Prayer, Coffee

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• My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

  John Sebastian

  Mother, Father, Musician

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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• I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.

  Lady Gaga

  Writing, Intellectual, Evolution

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• I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Listening, Band, Teens

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.

  James Ellroy

  Listening, Pieces, Narrative

  Interview by Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 9, 2010.

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• I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian or it's Western. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me.

  A. R. Rahman

  Thinking, Play, Together

  "Composer A.R. Rahman Interview 127 HOURS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.

  Planningtorock

  Starting, Concerts, Young

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the first Dead Kennedys single, was inspired musically more by Japanese Kabuki than anything else.

  Jello Biafra

  Growing Up, California, Firsts

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.

  Steve Hackett

  Father, Thinking, Play

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• I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.

  Billy Joel

  People, Rolling, Stones

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• When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.

  Jimmy Page

  Rocks, Long, Together

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

  Jimmy Page

  Rocks, Ice, Genius

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.

  Jimmy Page

  Musical, Style, Degrees

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

  David Gilmour

  Home, Pops, Pop Music

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Radio

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

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• In Western classical music the idea of holiness, purity, perfection, and total beauty is expressed through clarity of sound - a bell-like sound. Obviously, that has its own place, and it's a beautiful way of doing it. But I don't think I am the first to point out that in Africa, the more buzzing the sound is, the more it indicates the other world - the spirit world.

  Justin Adams

  Beautiful, Thinking, Other Worlds

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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