Classical Music Quotes - Page 13

• I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

  Brad Paisley

  Rocks, Cds, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Musical, Needs

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

  Moby

  Rocks, Band, Punk

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

  Danny Elfman

  Musical, Might, Stuff

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

  Herb Alpert

  Jazz

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• I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

  Danny Elfman

  Thinking, Differences, Understanding

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• As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

  Julie Andrews

  Focus, Jazz

  "Legendary actress Julie Andrews turns the page". Interview with Joy Sewing, www.chron.com. June 6, 2012.

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

  Michael Gambon

  Beautiful, Flower, Ballet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Nigel Kennedy

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

  Benjamin Zander

  Knows

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• Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.

  Dave Brubeck

  Country, Fusion, Broadway

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• I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Country, Children, Teenager

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• I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Hate, Humorous

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• I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if I could find a piece of music, I went through a **** load of classical music to find something that I felt had a certain urgency to it, but also with a hint of melancholia and maybe a sense of longing. I found that which is public domain and I had a piano teacher to go through it with me.

  Colin Farrell

  Teacher, Piano, Hints

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I listen mostly to classical music.

  Alexandra Fuller

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• I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

  Joan Rivers

  Thinking

  "Joan Rivers brings her tart-tongued stand-up routine to the Oregon Symphony Saturday". Interview with Kristi Turnquist, www.oregonlive.com. January 7, 2011.

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• Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

  Sonny Rollins

  Real, Europe, Music Is

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• I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Dad, Parent, Brecht

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• 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.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Opportunity, People, Challenges

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• Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  People, Venezuela, Tickets

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• Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

  Edgar Meyer

  Jazz, Scottish, Century

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• I love listening to classical music.

  Katharine McPhee

  Listening

  "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 8, 2010.

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• I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

  Benjamin Carson

  School, Profound, Effects

  Source: rightwingnews.com

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• One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

  Lesley Garrett

  Artist, Media, Groups

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• But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Mean, Doe, Addresses

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