Best 85 quotes in «classical music quotes» category

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

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

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

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

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

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.

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.

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.

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

The classical music world is so snobbish.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

To sing is to pray twice.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

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

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

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music. It's a personal diary. An uncensored confession in the dead of night. A baring of the soul. Take a modern example. Florence and the Machine? In the song 'Cosmic Love,' she catalogs the way in which the world has gone dark, distorting her, when she, a rather intense young woman, was left bereft by a love affair. 'The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out.

He wore his personality like a suit that was too tight.

A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.

Be the person your pet rat thinks you are!

History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.

Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.

Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge.

I am into classical music, in fact,” I say. “It’s been around for more than a thousand years, its composers have more name recognition than whatever ‘indie’ music you’re listening to right now, and symphonies sell out millions of performances a year. So go ahead, tell me classical music is tedious or boring or inferior.

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books, not everybody has to do it. Music is not for everybody.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.