Classical Music Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

  Bernard Holland

  Music, People, Three

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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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• 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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• Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

  Dave Brubeck

  Musician, Jazz, Perfectionist

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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 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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• Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  World, Process, Certain

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Mean, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

  Charles Rosen

  Art, Decision, Attention

  Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

  George Steiner

  Citizens, Today, Music Is

  George Steiner (1974). “In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture”, p.121, Yale University Press

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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 started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about collecting and learning as much vocabulary as possible. It's kind of like writing. It's kind of like writing because the more you read, the more you hear people describe things. The more you soak in, as far as vocabulary, the more access you have in order to express yourself accurately and vividly.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Writing, Thinking, People

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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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• Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things.

  Eric Carr

  Different, Zeppelins, Littles

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