Classical Music Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• Jazz is America's classical music.

  Billy Taylor

  Music, America, Jazz

  "Dr. Billy Taylor, 90th birthday anniversary: Interview". Interview with Ted Panken, tedpanken.wordpress.com. October 14, 1999.

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• Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two, Silence, Ears

  Benjamin Disraeli (1837). “Works”, p.324

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• Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

  Steve Hackett

  Years, Stuff, Classic

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

  Adam Jones

  Self, Taught, Backgrounds

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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