Classical Music Quotes - Page 7

• I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.

  Herbie Hancock

  Artist, Years, Mind

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• Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it. It's there for everyone. I play for the people.

  Andre Rieu

  Play, Circles, People

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• I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyone’s entertainment. It has been my hope that through live concerts, motion pictures, recordings, international competitions, and interesting public forums, a larger group of people will learn to love classical music and attend live concert performances.

  Jose Iturbi

  Live Concerts, People, Interesting

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• Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

  Malcolm Arnold

  Passion, Writing, Mean

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• I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

  Eberhard Weber

  Music, Stuff, Lovers

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• Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

  Questlove

  Concentration, Committed, Particular

  "Interview: How Questlove Stays Occupied" by Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

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• But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

  Van Cliburn

  Strong, Forever, May

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• We learned Russian music, and of course Western European classical music, but nothing from our own Tuvan culture. I think that was the biggest problem of Communists - they didn't care about the cultural life of aboriginal people, here especially in Siberia. Maybe it brought them to collapse.

  Albert Kuvezin

  Thinking, People, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than pop. I've always been annoyed by that.

  Matias Tellez

  Art, Thinking, Annoyed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Normally classical music is set up so you have professionals on a stage and a bunch of audience - it's us versus them. You spend your entire time as an audience member looking at the back of the conductor so you're already aware of a certain kind of hierarchy when you are there: there are people who can do it, who are on stage, and you aren't on stage so you can't do it. There's also a conductor who is telling the people who are onstage exactly what to do and when to do it and so you know that person is more important than the people on stage.

  David Lang

  People, Important, Kind

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• Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider looking at music going "Why is this interesting to me? Why should I be doing this?" and I never felt like I was a natural musician. It came into my life, kind of, as a conceptual problem and I think all my pieces are, in a way, looking at some issue and sometimes veering toward an inside baseball model of classical music.

  David Lang

  Baseball, Thinking, Interesting

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• Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

  Joshua Bell

  One Day, Musician

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• We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.

  Ralf Hutter

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• College was pivotal for me. It broadened my horizons, taught me to think and question, and introduced me to many things - such as art and classical music - that had not previously been part of my life. I went to college thinking that I might teach history in high school or that I might seek a career in the retail industry, probably working for a department store, something I had done during the holidays while in high school. I came out of college with plans to do something that had never crossed my mind four years earlier.

  John E Ferling

  Art, School, Holiday

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I wanted to make an album where every song is kind of interacting - where you can't tell what's the string arrangement and what's the song. I guess that came out of going to college, majoring in music, studying classical music, and even as a kid, being really drawn to classical music.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Song, Kids, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was growing up, until I was 18 or 19, I was totally invested in the classical music world. I had no concept of anything else. The closest thing to a cool band I listened to was Radiohead. Radiohead were the only band I liked in high school. I was just obsessed with classical music, opera, Claude Debussy, and that kind of stuff.

  Katie Stelmanis

  Growing Up, School, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Unique, Zombie

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

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• There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

  Alan Hollinghurst

  People, Feelings, Noise

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• I understand that in people's eyes, classical music is kind of a lost and dying art, but in my eyes, it's like, "Oh, the musical language, which has been, in the past, only available to a scarce few at the top of the tower, is now wide open." Now people's ears are becoming more amenable to fake strings - I think this is great!

  Owen Pallett

  Art, Eye, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

  Ian Anderson

  Children, Teenager, Church Music

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• Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Critics at their best are independent voices people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers, I really do think of myself as a teacher. Newspapers that don't carry arts criticism at all while not fulfill this function. And probably their arts journalism will be deprived as a result.

  Terry Teachout

  Teacher, Art, Independent

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people. Young people aren't starting to listen to Jazz and carrying it along in their lives with them. Jazz is becoming more like Classical music in terms of its relationship to the audience. And just a Classical music is grappling with the problem of audience development, so is Jazz grappling with this problem. I believe, deeply that Jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say to ordinary people. But it has to be systematic about getting out the message.

  Terry Teachout

  Believe, People, Age

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or something new or the same ol', same ol' in classical music. I'm always in dialogue with other musicians at least orally, if I can't be with them and a lot of dead musicians as well. I've learned a lot from dead people on recordings.

  Thomas Hampson

  People, Musician, Something New

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You would be surprised how many people that are very passionate about classical music are deeply involved in Hip Hop. You would think Jazz would be the natural associative, but it's extraordinary what kind of crossed-genre associations we are finding in digital media. And even as I'm talking about it, I find myself speaking very much more about how people are accessing that which, what I do, rather than me being preoccupied trying to market something that I do to them.

  Thomas Hampson

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized ideas. A lot of it deal with, as an example, genre. If I ask you to visualize a trap musician or a hip-hop musician, you'll see one thing. If I say visualize a western classical musician, you'll see a very different thing. A lot of how music is disseminated to us is hyper-racialized. It's not something that we think about all the time, but if you take a minute to look back, it's why you get this argument when there's a white rapper.

  Christian Scott

  Thinking, Rapper, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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