Classical Music Quotes
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But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.
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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.
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I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.
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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.
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Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
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I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.
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When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.
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Classical music always had a great influence on me. In fact some of my songs have a classical theme in mind.
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For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.
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For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.
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I think the Cadillac should be set to classical music.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
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Jazz is America's classical music.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
