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There are some classical pieces written . . . that are very boring. I've always had a strong urge to...
EDGAR MEYER I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
ENYA A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and...
LAILA ROBINS![]()
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ...
BRIAN GREENE There's no crusade here, but I am trying to slip classical music in through the back door, ... I thi...
WILLIAM ORBIT She's taking throat singing to a new realm. It's a great chance to see a world class group - they're...
ERIC EPSTEIN My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about co...
CARLA BRUNI He is expert in classical music. He knew the composers and knew their lives. He read their biographi...
DIANE JACOBOWITZ When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, ...
TOM GLAZER![]()
A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectabil...
JOHN ASHBERY![]()
New converts should not be encouraged to pursue classical ministry as a pastor
SUNDAY ADELAJA The musicians and we know that this is important to the future of the New York Philharmonic and of c...
ZARIN MEHTA This papyrus is returning the most ancient geographic map of the classical world and helps write new...
CLAUDIO GALLAZZI I've known [Greenhill] since Congress because he cares about the conservative movement, ... My fundr...
MARK SANFORD It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places a...
JOSHUA ROMAN![]()
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composer...
WARREN ZEVON![]()
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music...
HENRY FLYNT In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is ...
KAREN KAIN![]()
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been inf...
YO-YO MA My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I ...
OSCAR ISAAC Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was pres...
ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN![]()
'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused ...
GEORGE AKERLOF![]()
Beethoven introduced us to anger. Haydn taught us capriciousness, Rachmaninoff melancholy. Wagner wa...
DORIS MORTMAN![]()
My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during...
ANAT COHEN [Forward-thinking record-company executives are already talking about using free downloads as a meth...
ROGER WRIGHT Francois is to classical music what Michael Jordan was to basketball. Nobody else does what he does....
HANS STURM![]()
So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably sa...
NORMAN DAVIES To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiqu...
JOHN WARWICK MONTGOMERY![]()
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'...
MICK MARS What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just...
CHASKE SPENCER You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPo...
GRAEME BASE![]()
The power of classical music turns my words into fire.
A.D. POSEY![]()
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now...
NINA SIMONE![]()
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the c...
DOC SEVERINSEN The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre ...
JOHN WRIGHT![]()
It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your chi...
EUNY HONG![]()
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC![]()
In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual ...
DAVID SANBORN![]()
Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance...
DOC SEVERINSEN![]()
I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road ...
ALEX EBERT Nobody really believes that now, but nobody could ever find anything wrong with the classical argume...
SAMIR MATHUR I'm completely stunned that the DVD came out as great as it did. There was some greater power watchi...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN I don't personally know Michael Angelo or his music, but regarding contests and who is faster or wha...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Yeah, I do. To me, the audience can be one person. I'm so critical of myself that it's really hard f...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN The classical world is a completely different planet from the rock world. But I was welcomed with op...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN This was a huge, huge undertaking. I composed this concerto from the ground up. It took about two ye...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Yeah, I figured that out myself. From listening. I would have learned a lot quicker if I had someone...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN![]()
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not de...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic for...
MICHAEL HANEKE I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
LAILA ROBINS My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I...
ANTONIA THOMAS![]()
For many years, I've always been attached to what they call the Great American Songbook, and Ker...
TONY BENNETT The classical music world is so snobbish.
ANDRE RIEU I tried to write something that is majestic, and perhaps more modern than classical in style.
ALEX ANISHENKO I like people to see that classical music is not stuffy. It's something for any generation.
MASAKAZU ITO Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet ...
DAVID HALLBERG![]()
A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was ...
KATY MIXON My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation...
SHULER HENSLEY In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of m...
GEORGE AKERLOF![]()
What I want is a sort of new political realignment on libertarian/authoritarian lines, and I want a ...
MILO YIANNOPOULOS And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation o...
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.
KIESZA![]()
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very...
BENNY GREEN Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or cr...
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL ... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries...
JIM AL-KHALILI There's really no place for us at radio. The feeling is that we're too 'classical' for pop stations,...
DAVID MILLER![]()
Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etching...
ADRIENNE MAYOR![]()
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theate...
PHILIPPE PETIT![]()
The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.
HERBERT A. SIMON![]()
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE He began life writing classical music, ... He didn't actually write his first rock 'n roll song unti...
BARRY MILES Segovia was my musical inspiration while growing up, and he singlehandedly brought the guitar to the...
CHRISTOPHER PARKENING![]()
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music ...
BENNY GREEN![]()
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
SAMUEL JOHNSON![]()
'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.
HOWARD SHORE![]()
For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE![]()
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is li...
NOAM CHOMSKY![]()
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB![]()
I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
VIVIEN LEIGH My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something;...
GEORGE GAMOW Last year was a big year for classical music going digital.
CHAS JENKINS Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were d...
MOSE ALLISON We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobo...
ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN![]()
Pran Nath always encouraged me to do my own composition and experiments with Western classical music...
TERRY RILEY Nobody cares about it. The IPO market is pretty quiet.
KYLE HUSKE a classical guerrilla-type campaign.
JOHN ABIZAID But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, w...
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS![]()
Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.
BUZZ ALDRIN Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
ALAN PRICE My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials...
RICHARD A. EPSTEIN![]()
the opposite effect, of making my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, bu...
SUZANNE COLLINS One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on ...
KESHA ROGERS![]()
I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for si...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER![]()
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my...
NICOLAS CAGE Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people...
NAMIE AMURO I listen mostly to classical music.
ALEXANDRA FULLER There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic, profound, serious, emo...
ELLEN WILLIS
EDGAR MEYER I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
ENYA A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and...
LAILA ROBINS
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ... BRIAN GREENE There's no crusade here, but I am trying to slip classical music in through the back door, ... I thi...
WILLIAM ORBIT She's taking throat singing to a new realm. It's a great chance to see a world class group - they're...
ERIC EPSTEIN My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about co...
CARLA BRUNI He is expert in classical music. He knew the composers and knew their lives. He read their biographi...
DIANE JACOBOWITZ When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, ...
TOM GLAZER
A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectabil... JOHN ASHBERY
New converts should not be encouraged to pursue classical ministry as a pastor SUNDAY ADELAJA The musicians and we know that this is important to the future of the New York Philharmonic and of c...
ZARIN MEHTA This papyrus is returning the most ancient geographic map of the classical world and helps write new...
CLAUDIO GALLAZZI I've known [Greenhill] since Congress because he cares about the conservative movement, ... My fundr...
MARK SANFORD It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places a...
JOSHUA ROMAN
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composer... WARREN ZEVON
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music... HENRY FLYNT In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is ...
KAREN KAIN
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been inf... YO-YO MA My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I ...
OSCAR ISAAC Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was pres...
ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN
'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused ...
GEORGE AKERLOF
Beethoven introduced us to anger. Haydn taught us capriciousness, Rachmaninoff melancholy. Wagner wa... DORIS MORTMAN
My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during... ANAT COHEN [Forward-thinking record-company executives are already talking about using free downloads as a meth...
ROGER WRIGHT Francois is to classical music what Michael Jordan was to basketball. Nobody else does what he does....
HANS STURM
So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably sa... NORMAN DAVIES To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiqu...
JOHN WARWICK MONTGOMERY
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. CHARLES HAZLEWOOD I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'...
MICK MARS What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just...
CHASKE SPENCER You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPo...
GRAEME BASE
The power of classical music turns my words into fire. A.D. POSEY
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now... NINA SIMONE
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the c... DOC SEVERINSEN The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre ...
JOHN WRIGHT
It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your chi... EUNY HONG
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down. NOVAK DJOKOVIC
In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual ... DAVID SANBORN
Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance... DOC SEVERINSEN
I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road ... ALEX EBERT Nobody really believes that now, but nobody could ever find anything wrong with the classical argume...
SAMIR MATHUR I'm completely stunned that the DVD came out as great as it did. There was some greater power watchi...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN I don't personally know Michael Angelo or his music, but regarding contests and who is faster or wha...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Yeah, I do. To me, the audience can be one person. I'm so critical of myself that it's really hard f...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN The classical world is a completely different planet from the rock world. But I was welcomed with op...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN This was a huge, huge undertaking. I composed this concerto from the ground up. It took about two ye...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Yeah, I figured that out myself. From listening. I would have learned a lot quicker if I had someone...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not de... CAMILLE PAGLIA Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic for...
MICHAEL HANEKE I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
LAILA ROBINS My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I...
ANTONIA THOMAS
For many years, I've always been attached to what they call the Great American Songbook, and Ker... TONY BENNETT The classical music world is so snobbish.
ANDRE RIEU I tried to write something that is majestic, and perhaps more modern than classical in style.
ALEX ANISHENKO I like people to see that classical music is not stuffy. It's something for any generation.
MASAKAZU ITO Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet ...
DAVID HALLBERG
A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was ... KATY MIXON My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation...
SHULER HENSLEY In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of m...
GEORGE AKERLOF
What I want is a sort of new political realignment on libertarian/authoritarian lines, and I want a ... MILO YIANNOPOULOS And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation o...
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.
KIESZA
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very... BENNY GREEN Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or cr...
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL ... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries...
JIM AL-KHALILI There's really no place for us at radio. The feeling is that we're too 'classical' for pop stations,...
DAVID MILLER
Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etching... ADRIENNE MAYOR
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theate... PHILIPPE PETIT
The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful. HERBERT A. SIMON
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. NINA SIMONE He began life writing classical music, ... He didn't actually write his first rock 'n roll song unti...
BARRY MILES Segovia was my musical inspiration while growing up, and he singlehandedly brought the guitar to the...
CHRISTOPHER PARKENING
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music ... BENNY GREEN
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. SAMUEL JOHNSON
'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s. HOWARD SHORE
For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century. JEAN-MICHEL JARRE
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is li... NOAM CHOMSKY
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value. VIVIEN LEIGH My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something;...
GEORGE GAMOW Last year was a big year for classical music going digital.
CHAS JENKINS Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were d...
MOSE ALLISON We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobo...
ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN
Pran Nath always encouraged me to do my own composition and experiments with Western classical music... TERRY RILEY Nobody cares about it. The IPO market is pretty quiet.
KYLE HUSKE a classical guerrilla-type campaign.
JOHN ABIZAID But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, w...
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals. BUZZ ALDRIN Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
ALAN PRICE My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials...
RICHARD A. EPSTEIN
the opposite effect, of making my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, bu... SUZANNE COLLINS One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on ...
KESHA ROGERS
I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for si... BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my... NICOLAS CAGE Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people...
NAMIE AMURO I listen mostly to classical music.
ALEXANDRA FULLER There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic, profound, serious, emo...
ELLEN WILLIS
