Classical Music Quotes - Page 7

• Its a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because thats where your community is.

  Joshua Roman

  Home, Community, Feelings

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• I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you really want to do something different, don't be afraid to do so. Think of music itself and not the rules or expectations of people.

  Charlie Albright

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.

  Alicia Keys

  Play, Practice, Needs

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• 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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• Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Vocabulary, Challenges, Thank God

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

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• Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Opposites, Numbers

  Source: www.spin.com

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• If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Alive, Ifs

  "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 write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Writing, Wine

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.

  David Garrett

  Kids, Order, Effort

  Source: edition.cnn.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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• 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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• I've always been a lover of classical music ever since I was an early teenager I suppose. I remember the very first piece of classical music that grabbed me was I bought an LP of Daniel Barenboim performing Mozart's piano concertos and I would have been about 14 or 15 at the time and I remember I played it over and over again.

  George Brandis

  Teenager, Piano, Pieces

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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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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