Classical Music Quotes - Page 12

• I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

  Rick Owens

  Together, Literature, Opera

  "Rick Owens Interviews Eugene Rabkin, Founder of StyleZeitgeist, On the State of Fashion". Interview With Rick Owens, www.highsnobiety.com.

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• Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

  Van Morrison

  Reading, Night, Rocks

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.

  Liv Ullmann

  Book, Hero, Men

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• 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 powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Powerful, Unique, Years

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• I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

  Jillian Hervey

  Ballet Class, Dancer, Listening

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

  John Fahey

  Guitar, Listening, Trying

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• I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Play, Differences

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. Nove,ber 1, 2010.

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• I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take time, to listen, to work together, to listen to other people, and to use your brain. That's why classical music doesn't work when you throw it at people in a subway platform while they're rushing to work. Classical music is something that needs to be contemplated, you have to be completely present with an active mind that's working. It's not background music.

  Joshua Bell

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo, and Raphael, Da Vinci and Rembrandt, does not need lessons from societies whose idea of spirituality is a heaven peopled with female virgins for the use of men, whose idea of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel.

  Ibn Warraq

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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• Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it.

  John Kinsella

  Art, Ideas, Discipline

  Source: www.cmc.ie

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• The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an expert in classical music. I don't want to say something that ends up in print and somebody comes running after me with a shovel, but they're taught for each note to stand alone in a very deliberate kind of way, which is really different than how notes are strung together in old-time music to create rhythm.

  Bruce Molsky

  Running, Together, Experts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

  James Ellroy

  Sports, Hate, Thinking

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.

  Elizabeth Jagger

  Listening

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.

  Sean Mackin

  Mom, Art, Growing Up

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• I write my music with the idea that it will appeal to all of those people, and I want them to go in with all the history that's within all of us - all the things that they've listened to in the backs of their minds, whether it's country music or minimal techno, or classical music or whatever. I want them to bring that excitement, that love, or that hate, or whatever it might be, to my music. I feel that my music draws on so many different things.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Country, Hate, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.

  Eric Weiner

  Air, Practice, People

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• Obviously there are pieces of classical music that are some of the most beautiful music ever written, for me anyway is a lot of classical or contemporary music, so it's a different kind of space that you enter when you're listening to it.

  Bryce Dessner

  Beautiful, Space, Listening

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• The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was a boy soprano. I didn't do that much classical music; I did a little bit. I had a lovely voice. And then when my voice dropped, I didn't worry about it consciously because I wasn't that invested in my singing at the time.

  Sam Amidon

  Kids, Boys, Lovely Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Parent, Listening, Lucky

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  Gary Oldman

  Piano, Obsession, Obsessed

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• I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.

  Lara Fabian

  Queens, Inspiration, Journey

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

  Leila Josefowicz

  People, Comfort, Has Beens

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• 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).

  Gary Lucas

  Moving, People, Doubt

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• When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

  Tom Glazer

  Music, Today, Folks

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• 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.

  Tom Glazer

  Mother, Father, Two

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