Classical Music Quotes

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Music, Thinking, Keep

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit Ray

Music, Age, Poetry

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
Nina Simone

Music, Freedom, Important

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
Tony Blair

Music, Truth, Rock

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

Love, Music, Focus

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

Love, Music, Great

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
Lorin Maazel

Music, Struggle, Confused

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!
Norah Jones

Music, Far, Maybe

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

Music, Playing, Piano

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

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

Music, Black, White

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

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

Music, Down, Listen

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

Music, Politics, Living

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.
Kristin Davis

Music, Beautiful, Sunday

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
Yo-Yo Ma

Music, Whatever, Interests

Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.
Dave Brubeck

Music, Everything, Through

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
Ben Harper

Music, Different, Listen

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
Itzhak Perlman

Music, Work, Makes

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.
Andrew Bird

Music, Learning, Mom

I love listening to classical music.
Katharine McPhee

Love, Music, Listening

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.
Brad Paisley

Music, Rock, Big

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
Elizabeth McGovern

Music, Family, Found

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.
Don Bluth

Music, Mean, Everyone

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
Nina Simone

Music, Black, Play

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