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I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to. Andrew Wyatt

Music, School, Year, Know, Jazz, You

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis. Lola Kirke

Music, People, Me, Fun, Think, You

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

Music, World, Me, Jazz, Like, Baroque

Classical music can rock you! Ji-Hae Park

Music, Rock, You, Classical

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more. Ji-Hae Park

Music, People, Me, Name, Enjoy, Think

There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music. Daniel Hope

Music, World, Musicians, Play, Wonderful

Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene. Amanda Plummer

Love, Music, Death, College, Enough

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams). Gary Lucas

Music, Great, Day, People, Me, Doubt

I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music. Rafael Vinoly

Music, Time, World, Play, I Can, Piano

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos. Jon Lord

Love, Music, Way, Effect, Use, I Love

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock. Matt Schulze

Love, Music, Guitar, Rock, Yes, Stuff

Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be. Lucia Micarelli

Music, Great, Me, Way, Want, Always

I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I like dancing to classical music: Bach and Schubert. Anna Mouglalis

Life, Love, Music, Daughter, Morning

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. Charles Rosen

Love, Music, Art, Decision, Attention

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, Values, Confused, Role

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion. Malcolm Arnold

Family, Music, Passion, Wife, End, Me

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