Quotes About Classical

I was born and raised in Germany, so I was classically trained. Classical has been deep in me from a totally early age. Then, as a teenager, I picked up the guitar and was really into rock music.

I have been singing since I was a child, and I am a trained Hindustani classical singer.

I am classically trained in piano, flute, and voice.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.

I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

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.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

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.

My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.

Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it is actually the most complicated to sing in many instances.

I'm from a musical family. My father, Pashupati Bhattacharjee, was a great classical singer. My mother, sister, everybody was in music, and I grew up in music.

I started playing music when I was about six and didn't discover Indian classical music until I was fifteen. So, essentially, I had a lot of catching up to do.

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

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

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.

I love listening to classical music.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Violin Concerto no. 1, featuring Wilhelm Friedemann Herzog

But poets more classical than they have the same essential quality of transmuting ideas into sensations, of transforming an observation into a state of mind.