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Quotes About Classical

We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.
~ David Joseph Bohm
I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.
~ Richard Wagner
Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.
~ Michael Tilson Thomas
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
~ Arthur Miller
I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think about technique.
~ Gregor Schwellenbach
My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.
~ Chris Thile
I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.
~ Frank Zappa
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
~ Edward Witten
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.
~ Karl Marx
ANOTHER PRODUCT OF THE SPRING WAS THE QUINTET IN E-FLAT FOR Piano and Winds, K. 452.
~ Jan Swafford
Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.
~ Jane Asher
Danger makes men classical, and all greatness, after all, is rooted in risk.
~ Albert Camus
O melhor tipo de interpretação clássica não é um recuo para o passado, mas uma intensificação do presente
~ Alex Ross
Ray grew up in Chicago so he had the blues, Muddy Waters and all that. He also had classical training. That was pretty cool. That was invoked in the intro to 'Light My Fire,' which was very kind of Bach-like.
~ John Densmore
To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or Ravel.
~ Alexandre Desplat
My movement is usually about finding the balance between artistry, athleticism, and musicality. It always originates with a classical basis and expands outwards from that platform.
~ Justin Peck
I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
~ Caroline Shaw
When I need some energy in the morning I can put a metal CD in my player, because it gets me going! Classical music will send me off the road!
~ Tarja Turunen
If you love classical playwrights, seek out companies or places that are doing that. If you love modern playwrights, try to find groups who are writing new plays or working on new plays. If you love television, watch as much theater and film as you can.
~ Juliet Rylance
I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
~ Ringo Starr
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
~ Gilbert Murray
I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.
~ Nina Simone
I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.
~ Neil Gaiman
I like to listen the blues and some classical.
~ Peter Tork