Classical Music Quotes - Page 11

• I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.

  Billy Joel

  People, Rolling, Stones

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• I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.

  Lady Gaga

  Writing, Intellectual, Evolution

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• I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Listening, Band, Teens

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.

  James Ellroy

  Listening, Pieces, Narrative

  Interview by Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 9, 2010.

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• I basically 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. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me.

  A. R. Rahman

  Thinking, Play, Together

  "Composer A.R. Rahman Interview 127 HOURS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.

  Planningtorock

  Starting, Concerts, Young

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the first Dead Kennedys single, was inspired musically more by Japanese Kabuki than anything else.

  Jello Biafra

  Growing Up, California, Firsts

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

  John Sebastian

  Mother, Father, Musician

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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• Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.'

  Leighton Ford

  Morning, Prayer, Coffee

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• Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

  Horace Silver

  Swings, Bebop, Broadway

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• I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening to a lot of classical music lately for some reason. I used to do that a lot when I was doing cabinet making in New England. I've sort of returned to that for some reason. That might be surprising to people.

  Hal Ketchum

  People, Listening, Might

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• I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.

  Paul Haslinger

  Dream, Teenager, School

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• I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.

  Rosanne Cash

  Book, Piano, Childhood

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• Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession.

  Herbie Hancock

  Kids, Impact, Years

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• My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in any music but, he hang on to continue training at the Academy of Music... however, I never mentioned to my teachers that I trained myself at weekends in clubs.

  Richard Clayderman

  Teacher, Father, Mean

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• Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

  Dave Barry

  People, Musician, Twenties

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• I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

  Ledisi

  Grateful, Made

  "Ledisi: A Singer's Second Life". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011.

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• I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

  Danny Fox

  Simple, Piano, Stuff

  "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

  Seymour Stein

  Stars, Rocks, Tchaikovsky

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Powerful, Unique, Years

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• Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.

  Liv Ullmann

  Book, Hero, Men

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an expert in classical music. I don't want to say something that ends up in print and somebody comes running after me with a shovel, but they're taught for each note to stand alone in a very deliberate kind of way, which is really different than how notes are strung together in old-time music to create rhythm.

  Bruce Molsky

  Running, Together, Experts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it.

  John Kinsella

  Art, Ideas, Discipline

  Source: www.cmc.ie

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• A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo, and Raphael, Da Vinci and Rembrandt, does not need lessons from societies whose idea of spirituality is a heaven peopled with female virgins for the use of men, whose idea of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel.

  Ibn Warraq

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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• I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Play, Differences

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. Nove,ber 1, 2010.

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