Classical Music Quotes - Page 13

• Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

  Benjamin Zander

  Knows

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• I love listening to classical music.

  Katharine McPhee

  Listening

  "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 8, 2010.

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• I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

  Joan Rivers

  Thinking

  "Joan Rivers brings her tart-tongued stand-up routine to the Oregon Symphony Saturday". Interview with Kristi Turnquist, www.oregonlive.com. January 7, 2011.

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• Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

  Sonny Rollins

  Real, Europe, Music Is

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• I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Opportunity, People, Challenges

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• Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

  Edgar Meyer

  Jazz, Scottish, Century

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• I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Dad, Parent, Brecht

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• I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Hate, Humorous

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• I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Country, Children, Teenager

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• Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.

  Dave Brubeck

  Country, Fusion, Broadway

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• I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

  Herb Alpert

  Jazz

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• Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  People, Venezuela, Tickets

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• I listen mostly to classical music.

  Alexandra Fuller

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• I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

  Michael Gambon

  Beautiful, Flower, Ballet

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

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• I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

  Danny Elfman

  Thinking, Differences, Understanding

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• I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

  Danny Elfman

  Musical, Might, Stuff

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• One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

  Lesley Garrett

  Artist, Media, Groups

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• Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

  Tom Glazer

  Mother, Father, Two

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• When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

  Tom Glazer

  Music, Today, Folks

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• Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

  Leila Josefowicz

  People, Comfort, Has Beens

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• I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Musical, Needs

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

  Moby

  Rocks, Band, Punk

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

  Benjamin Carson

  School, Profound, Effects

  Source: rightwingnews.com

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• I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if I could find a piece of music, I went through a **** load of classical music to find something that I felt had a certain urgency to it, but also with a hint of melancholia and maybe a sense of longing. I found that which is public domain and I had a piano teacher to go through it with me.

  Colin Farrell

  Teacher, Piano, Hints

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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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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