Quotes About Classical

Beethoven's "Leonore Overture.

Every musician should announce the raga and the sahityam before performing.

There is a translation of a Persian book into English, not from Persian, but from a French translation of an Urdu rendering of a classical Persian abridgment of an Arabic original.

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

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that's part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it's classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

I have been trained for three years in Hindustani classical music. I keep humming and many Bollywood co-stars have been victimized by my relentless singing.

I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.

The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

Their first date was at the symphony. How mean can a guy be who likes Mozart? I hope, at least.

Mozart's concerto K. 453

Classical dance is so pure and beautiful you don't need to add anything to its authenticity or beauty.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers...

La fede assoluta in soluzioni razionali e la proliferazione della letteratura utopistica sono due aspetti di stadi consimili dello sviluppo culturale, nell'Atene classica come nel Rinascimento italiano, nel settecento francese come nei due secoli successivi, e non meno oggi che nel passato recente o remoto.

The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.

I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

I know Ornette was playing violin sometimes - that was his bridge into the classical world, to break up that whole pecking order.