Classical Quotes

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
Mike Shinoda

Playing, Piano, Ten

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Theodore White

Live, Sense, Grace

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

Music, Playing, Piano

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
Katherine Jenkins

Two, Tried, Disagree

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
Harold MacMillan

Beautiful, Growth, Building

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.
Diane Kruger

Music, Beautiful, Emotional

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.
Diane Kruger

Music, Through, Find

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
Eddie Van Halen

Age, Good, America

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
Eddie Van Halen

Age, Guitar, Took

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Nina Simone

Music, Black, White

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Cyril Connolly

Family, Nature, Romantic

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.
Alicia Keys

Music, Time, Nice

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.
Katherine Jenkins

Music, Great, Best

I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical singer. I'd love to do opera, but I'm still too young and I don't want to do it until I'm ready. I realise that when I do that it's going to be... up for discussion, shall we say, so I want to get it right.
Katherine Jenkins

Love, Young, Until

I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well.
Katherine Jenkins

Training, Said, Artist

You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.
Katherine Jenkins

Music, Why, Once

I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that people didn't see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh - the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz - that would be brilliant!
Katherine Jenkins

Work, Wanted, Lucky

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

Music, Down, Listen

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.
John Zorn

Time, Good, Bad

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
Bjork

Rock, Become, Turning

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
Damian Lewis

Done, Played, Hamlet

To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.
Jennifer Garner

Life, Good, Become

A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.
Jamie Foxx

Music, May, Trying

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.
Jamie Foxx

Music, Fun, Career

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
John Polkinghorne

Important, Christian, Between

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.
Helen Reddy

Music, Balance, Order

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Life, Mean, Enough

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
Zoe Saldana

Life, Art, Character

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.
Michael Haneke

Else, Everyone, Healthy

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
Ben Harper

Rock, Find, Punk

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