Classical Music Quotes - Page 14

• In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

  Mike Figgis

  Mirrors, Development, Way

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• I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

  Jon Lord

  Use, Way, Chords

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• I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

  Serj Tankian

  Art, Musician, Orchestra

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• I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Play, Piano, World

  "Classical Piano and Modern Design" by Robin Finn, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2011.

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

  Joanna Newsom

  Relation, Experimental Music

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

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• The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

  Charles Rosen

  Tradition, Music Is, Continuing

  Charles Rosen (2001). “Critical Entertainments”, p.295, Harvard University Press

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• I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

  Eva Green

  Cocoons, Involved

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• Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

  John Corigliano

  People, Culture, Minorities

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 01, 2005.

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• It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Lying, Tin Pan Alley

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

  Satyajit Ray

  Birthday, Writing, Europe

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• 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?

  Lara St. John

  Passion, Sensual, Energy

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• 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.

  Ahmad Jamal

  Music, Artist, Europe

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• If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

  Vera Nazarian

  Rocks, Cities, Temples

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