Classical Music Quotes - Page 6

• Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they don't feel that it is something remote that they have to specially prepare themselves for, or dress up for.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Art, People, Dresses

  "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas (Condensed Version)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

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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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• 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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• The classical music world is so snobbish.

  Andre Rieu

  World, Snobbish

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

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• 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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• I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  Yann Tiersen

  Band, Way, Punk

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• Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

  Theo Hutchcraft

  Genres Of Music, Pops, Music Is

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'

  Jennifer Grant

  Dad, Simple, Eggs

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

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• We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.

  David Foster Wallace

  Math, Psychology, Important

  Interview with Dave Eggers, www.believermag.com. November 2003.

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• There are so many people who are interested in classical music. Fortunately, I think many of them are quite young, so it's wonderful to present new programs to them.

  Rafal Blechacz

  Thinking, People, Wonderful

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• I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

  Hugh Laurie

  Children, Giving Up, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My father is doing a radio program - classical music. He has a beautiful speaking voice and that's his passion in life, his music. My mother lives in Melbourne and is an avid photographer. She's also started writing for a magazine out there and she submits poems, very funny ones, and articles. In some way or other, my family is always doing something with the media.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• 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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• 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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• You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or "New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame.

  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  Squares, New Orleans, Hips

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• You know how some people seem to think that their love for classical music makes them spiritual or at least something quite special? And others who think you are a monster if you don't 'love children,' however obnoxious the children may be? Well, I found out that many people who love flowers look down on those who don't.

  Ruth Stout

  Spiritual, Children, Flower

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Strong, Thinking, Enough

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

  Felicity Kendal

  Gorgeous, Gentle

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• Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

  Pete Seeger

  Kings, Queens, Europe

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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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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• I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

  William Mapother

  Morning, Symphony, Opera

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