Classical Quotes

• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • Inspiration
  • Lyrical
  • New Age

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Music
  • Gentle
  • Gorgeous

• I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Choose
  • Now
  • Mix

• I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

  

  Anna Ternheim
  • Guitar
  • Grew Up
  • Classical

• I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Music
  • Stuff
  • Old

• I love classical. I have a lot of, like, Bach and Mozart and stuff. Then you flip on over, and I've got, like, Kanye West and, you know, just a bunch of - I am very eclectic. I love every sort of music.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Music
  • Know
  • Like

• I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Like
  • Sensibilities

• If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Rock
  • Inspiration
  • Jazz

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

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Music
  • Speak
  • Electronic

• I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.

  

  Lara Fabian
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Queen

• When we started the band, it was a classical group.

  

  Grace Chatto
  • Group
  • Started
  • Classical

• I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Hip Hop

• I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.

  

  Cory Arcangel
  • Guitar
  • Complicated
  • Liked

• 'The Shining' is operatic and sensational and... really shocking. It has this amazing meld of classical music and modern interpretations of classical music, and incredible imagery. From the set design to the costumes, there's so much to unpack.

  

  Dan Smith
  • Modern
  • Sensational
  • The Shining

• With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.

  

  Anna Meredith
  • Classical
  • Chord
  • Textures

• We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

  

  Grace Chatto
  • Music
  • Always
  • Loved

• Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.

  

  Kathleen Battle
  • Spiritual
  • Appropriate
  • Whenever

• I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.

  

  Kathleen Battle
  • Leave
  • Page
  • Background

• Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Exciting
  • Florence
  • Juxtaposition

• People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical, when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • People
  • Life
  • Thought

• The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

  

  David Finckel
  • Music
  • Purpose
  • Enormous

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