Classical Music Quotes

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

To sing is to pray twice.

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

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

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

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

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

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

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

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

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

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

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.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.