Classical Music Quotes

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

To sing is to pray twice.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

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

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.