Classical Music Quotes - Page 3

• There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.

  Amjad Ali Khan

  Differences, Essentials, Want

  "Indian Legend Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and Sons Perform in NYC" by Jim Luce, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

  Helen Reddy

  Order, Balance, Chaos

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• I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Inspirational, Basketball, Character

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• Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

  Allan Bloom

  Communication, Greek, Special

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

  Armando Iannucci

  Journey, Meditation, Listening

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• Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Lying

  'Arcades' (1645) l. 68

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• Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Long, People

  "Song: 'Cocaine Decisions'". 1983.

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• I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

  Elton John

  Half, Want, Littles

  Interview With Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Hip Hop, Musical, Hips

  "Meet Tatiana Maslany of TV's Newest Thriller, 'Orphan Black'". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 29, 2013.

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• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Artist, Thinking, Citizens

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 7, 2013.

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• 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.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  People, World, Influence

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• And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Journey, Thinking, Musician

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• On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

  Walter Moers

  Horse, Moving, Drunk

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• Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Determination, Skills, Endurance

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your mother is going out with a missing Portuguese criminal and your friends don't want to be your friend anymore, it makes you want to emigrate to a vicious Muslim regime, where at least all the women are treated like social outcasts. Anyway, I don't care. I am going to quietly read a book all weekend and listen to classical music.

  Helen Fielding

  Mother, Hate, Book

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

  Alicia Keys

  Ideas, Giving, Perception

  "Soul sister number one". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2004.

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• I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

  Adam Jones

  Self, Taught, Backgrounds

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• I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

  Maurice Sendak

  Opera, Designer, Needed

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• I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

  Herbie Hancock

  Years, Playing Jazz, Jazz

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• Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  World, Process, Certain

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.

  Randall Jarrell

  Song, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Mean, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

  Andrew Bird

  Play, Pieces, Way

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

  Bernard Holland

  Music, People, Three

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• Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

  Dave Brubeck

  Musician, Jazz, Perfectionist

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