Classical Music Quotes - Page 4

• I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.

  Bruno Mars

  Style, Incredibles, Should

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Challenges, Pieces, World

  "Jake Shimabukuro On His Ukulele Heroes, ‘Rolling In The Deep,’ And His Dream Song To Cover". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

  Frank Zappa

  Rocks, Musician, Rock N Roll

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• The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Voice, Musical, May

  "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: A Living Legend" by Ahmed Aqeel Ruby, translated by Sajjad Haider Malik, Lahore: Words of Wisdom, 1992.

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• The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Sound, Peculiar, Characteristics

  Edgar Wilson Nye's stand-up line, 1888.

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• We Gonna Win' is a song of triumph, It represents my personal belief that with hard work, talent and dedication, everything is possible. It's a one of a kind marriage between rap and classical music, where the music doesn't accompany the vocalist, but rather stands on its own.

  Miri Ben-Ari

  Song, Rap, Hard Work

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• My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations, but interestingly, I didn't become conscious of wanting to be a musician until I was about 11. I was a rather late starter.

  Gunther Schuller

  New York, Organization, Childhood

  "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• I remember being in college and taking a class on classical music and getting a big laugh when I said very sincerely that I was not really into trained voices. Some of the greatest singers can transcend their technical perfection and still sound great.

  Ira Kaplan

  College, Class, Voice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

  Lionel Richie

  Country, Growing Up, Grandmother

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

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• I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

  Lana Del Rey

  Song, Different, Littles

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• I 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.

  A. R. Rahman

  Together, Musician, Culture

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• Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

  Park Chan-wook

  Cities, Concerts, Offers

  "On my radar: Park Chan-wook" by Corinne Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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• Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about the message of classical music, because more than any other music, it is about the way life really is.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Needs, Alive, Way

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• The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Rocks, Sides, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  War, World, Changed

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

  David Finckel

  Art, Style, Age

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

  Amanda Plummer

  College, Stories, Records

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

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• I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

  Suzi Quatro

  Brother, Piano, World

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• That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Ability

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• In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.

  Todd Boyd

  Song, Responsibility, Love Is

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• I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wine, Two, Together

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• Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.

  David Garrett

  Use, Violin, Limits

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.

  David Garrett

  Kids, Order, Effort

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. A culture that is merely sensuous and that denies the activity of the mind within sensuous materials risks becoming pornographic.

  Julian Johnson

  Spiritual, Odds, Risk

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• My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Intimidating, My Family, Found

  "Elizabeth McGovern, Actor and Musician – Portrait of the Artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2012.

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