Quotes About Classical

Any form of classical music is made for youth.

For me, it's classical music I started with and I admire Jacqueline du Pre.

Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.

It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it.

I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello, this sound, and make it artistic so people can understand it today.

I think classical dance is not seeing the evolution seen by classical music.

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

I love Western classical music - I grew up on that thanks to my parents who loved it too.

I have an issue with classical music.

The choreography in films is completely different. I find it easier when I am asked to dance to classical music, but it's a different ball game altogether.

I love classical music. It's my stabiliser.

My whole life is classical now. Except my wife. I don't have a classical wife. I have a classy wife, but I don't have a classical wife.

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it.

I actually grew up seeing a lot of classical theater - a lot of Shakespeare - but I have such a passion for music and find that way of telling a story to be really compelling as well.

Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.

Being a classical musician, you can go to school for it; you can go get a degree. Even as a composer, there is a certain career path you can follow, but becoming a rock musician is a much more elusive career. How do you learn that or do that?

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers.

I loved a lot of the romantic composers.

One of the most rewarding things is meeting someone after a concert who has never been to a concert before. It is incredibly rewarding when they say, 'This is my first classical concert.' It is really exciting for everyone.

A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.

Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.

In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror, surrounded by the classical music, that's when I started to fall in love with dance.

Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.