Classical Music Quotes - Page 2

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

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

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

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

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

The classical music world is so snobbish.

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.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

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

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

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

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, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

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

We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.

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.

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.

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!

I was born out of classical music.

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

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

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