Classical Music Quotes - Page 5

• I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

  Birdy

  Wells

  "Birdy Releases Debut Album". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 16, 2012.

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• The classical music world is so snobbish.

  Andre Rieu

  World, Snobbish

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

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• Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.

  David Garrett

  Use, Violin, Limits

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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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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• Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.

  Horace Silver

  Music, Swings, Bebop

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• 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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• 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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• Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

  Jan Garbarek

  World, Jazz, Baroque Music

  "London jazz festival 2012: Where has Jan Garbarek gone? I miss him" by John Lewis, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

  Lee Konitz

  Listening, Jazz, Enjoy

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• For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

  Aleksey Igudesman

  Interesting, Film, Lost

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• Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Weed, Marijuana, Years

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• Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

  Aleksey Igudesman

  Beautiful, Littles, Firsts

  "Can Classical Musicians Be Funny?". Interview with Graham Meyer, www.chicagomag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

  Satyajit Ray

  Western, Indian

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

  Alan Vega

  Listening, Jazz

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• Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Father, Home, African American

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• My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Intimidating, My Family, Found

  "Elizabeth McGovern, Actor and Musician – Portrait of the Artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2012.

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• If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.

  A. R. Rahman

  Philosophy, Heart, Knowledgeable Person

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• It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  People, Chance

  "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.

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• I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

  Gregory Maguire

  Century, Late, Adore

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