Best 85 quotes in «classical music quotes» category

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

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

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

Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or something new or the same ol', same ol' in classical music. I'm always in dialogue with other musicians at least orally, if I can't be with them and a lot of dead musicians as well. I've learned a lot from dead people on recordings.

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.

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.

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

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

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.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

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.

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.

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

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.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

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

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

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.

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

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

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!

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

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.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

To sing is to pray twice.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

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