Classical Music Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias.

  Kim Him-chan

  Agency, Idols, Training

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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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• What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

  Ian McLagan

  Loud, Migraine, Turns

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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 wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I wouldn't know anything about classical music if it wasn't for "Fantasia." They didn't have to do that stuff. They chose to base this ridiculous, funny, intriguing, creative story on this beautiful classical music. It's the combination of the high and the low that I thought was very cool. But I had no concept of it as a kid.

  Jon Hamm

  Beautiful, Kids, Creative

  "MINIONS: Allison Janney and Jon Hamm Talk Animation, Their Characters, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 9, 2015.

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

  Felicity Kendal

  Gorgeous, Gentle

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• I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

  Philippe Petit

  Writing, World, Stuntman

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.

  Howard Shore

  Country, Inspiration, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that the current climate enables a lot of musicians to do relatively well. Twenty-five years ago, you could be a bass player in a folk-rock band and do pretty well - that sort of means that you're going to have to go get a day job. But a lot of my friends have learned how to write classical music for movies and produce other people and do remixes, and DJ and go on tour, and do all these different things. The more diverse their approach, the better their chances of actually having a career.

  Moby

  Writing, Mean, Player

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

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• "Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who are already into that sort of thing, somewhat analogous to free jazz or academic classical music. Which is stuff that I really like, but is late modernist and is going to have a limited audience.

  Stephen Burt

  People, Challenges, Together

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There are three virtuous styles of music; classical, jazz and heavy metal. I do love classical music but I don't listen to it much anymore and I never listen to metal, so I am not very interested in music that is difficult to play.

  Gregor Schwellenbach

  Style, Jazz, Heavy Metal

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

  Norah Jones

  Texas, Grew, Indian

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• I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Music, Borders, Three

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• I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think about technique.

  Gregor Schwellenbach

  Thinking, Goal, Musician

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

  Enya

  Church Music, Influence, Irish Music

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• Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

  Seymour Stein

  Musician, Rock Star

  Source: thequietus.com

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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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