Quotes About Classical

De vez en cuando asistían a conciertos de música clásica india, donde Sonia aprendió sobre ragas (melodía clásica) y ghazals (poemas cantados en urdu)

The task therefore was not only to denounce this supposed kinship between classical German culture and National Socialism, and show what this supposed 'Germanity' had falsified, but also to emphasize the extent to which the classical German heritage was indissociable from those values now trampled on by the Nazis: a certain belief in freedom, justice and democracy.

Onde Júpiter está, há interesse pela excelência e pela abordagem 'clássica' ou universal da vida.

To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.

Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery.

I have never actually abandoned singing. I have sung at lots of friends' weddings and family events to keep up my classical repertoire, and I get together with a music teacher every few months.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.

When K. Vishwanath made the film 'Shankarabharanam,' he wanted to bring back Carnatic classical music to mainstream. It's popularity was waning in those days.

As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached 'The Aeneid' just as I would a contemporary poem or novel - and, despite my ignorance, I was rewarded with a rich and affecting portrait of, among other things, the memorably doomed love affair between Aeneas and Dido.

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.

My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

It's imperative that I have another channel to pour ideas into, that have been with me for quite a while, that it would be hard for people to kind of accept on first listen. Some of that would be more classically based stuff and some more jazz based.

I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

On the first album, we were trying to do a pop-punk album with a classical influence. We'd say 'pop-punk,' and people would say, 'No, you're like burlesque-cabaret-punk,' or, 'It's baroque-pop,' and we were like, 'That sounds way cooler.'