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    The power of classical music turns my words into fire.

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    Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with pride For they are the players of harmony. Pilgrims, too, wear the imprint on their foreheads with pride For they are the conductors of unity. And Lovers? Why, they are made humble by the imprint on their hearts For they are merely the instruments of rhapsody.

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    We are the conductors of the beauty of the orchestra of our inner lives. Keep a Händel on it and don't hold Bach!

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    There was that sound again--snap, then a footfall. She tried to whirl around as a dark form--Dear God--sprang with a splash from the darkness--grabbed her from behind, shoved her under the water.

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

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    Would you think of somebody who you adore, who’s no longer there? A beloved grandmother, a lover — somebody in your life who you love with all your heart, but that person is no longer with you. Bring that person into your mind, and at the same time follow the line all the way from B to E, and you’ll hear everything that Chopin had to say.

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    Whenever i find myself losing faith in humanity, i come back to the classical music. They are a great reminder that we are also able to produce beautiful things made out of strong and barely controllable emotions.

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

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    Whatever comes, I'll take the good--and send the rest to hell.

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

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    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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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    I also like Western classical music and jazz.

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

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

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    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.

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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.

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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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.

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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.

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    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.

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    Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

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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!

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    I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

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

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    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.

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    The classical music world is so snobbish.

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