I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. ‘Shakespeare,’ you know. And now, I never play leading men. I’m that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it’s a drama.
The Zombies were really unique – they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.
I don’t know if anyone knows if they’re ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn’t act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’
It’s a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because that’s where your community is.
I was always into classical music and opera because I played the piano as I went through school and was very interested in Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals and stuff like that. That changed into heavy metal at around the age of 14 or 13, and I dropped the piano and started to play the guitar.
I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that’s it.
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
Personally, I cain’t stand classical stuff, but I don’t tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain’t these folks who don’t like my kind of music do the same?
I’m not a classical player. I don’t want to be a classical player. I love to improvise, because things happen that never happen anywhere else.
Musicians like to converse. There’s always interesting conversation with musicians – with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.
My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
I’d like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.
I have damaged nerve endings on the right side, so my piano style comes from designing stuff I can play with my right hand. And some of it effectively mimics classical stuff.
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
When you learn Indian classical music, sometimes it takes decades to perfect a raga.
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.
Classical music is something that we’re very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
Humans are imperfect. That’s one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We’re on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
What I want is a sort of new political realignment on libertarian/authoritarian lines, and I want a new consensus to emerge of disaffected liberals, classical liberals, dissident minorities like gays, small-state conservatives, libertarians, people who basically want to be left alone.
What’s different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That’s what makes it both powerful and exciting.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wanted to be in a rock-and-roll band, and most of us were. But I also grew up with a lot of piano lessons and a lot of classical music training.
I went to L’Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it’s not the only way to approach a cooking career.
I don’t regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I’m not a great player. I just like music. Drums ‘n’ bass is pretty exciting and I’d love to explore it.
Until I was around 12 or 13, I only listened to classical music, mostly Tchaikovsky. But around that age, I started listening to Iron Maiden, and that’s when I purchased my first guitar, a pearl-white Westone.
Having started in theatre, for a long time I wanted to be a classical actress. But I’ve always loved making people laugh – at school, I was quite mischievous, and bit by bit, I found myself working more and more in comedy.
A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I’ve done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
It couldn’t have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for music and art in New York City, and then found the guitar and the mandolin after it.
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
I’m a classic English liberal. A classical liberal, which is different to the modern interpretation of liberal in America.
I’m always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical – Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
I’m a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn’t ask a session musician, ‘How do you play jazz,’ and then, ‘How do you play classical?’ They just do it, because if they don’t do it, they don’t eat.
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That’s why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is a popular medium and has a broad reach. There have been films with ghazals, classical and folk songs sung by local artists, which gave them popularity.
Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.
Home’ was a special album for very specific reasons. It is an homage to my father. And it is the first classical album I’ve released in over a decade. So it really felt like a kind-of coming back to my roots.
I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
I love classical music; I love the way it’s worked… all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.
I fell in love with funk music through my father – Funkadelic – as well as soul and classical early on.
I love classical jazz.
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.
I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that’s part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it’s classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
My entire family are in music and my father was a classical singer, teacher and composer.
I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it’s Indian or it’s Western.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part.
What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap.
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
I’ve worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don’t like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
With classical singing you have to put out so much air – you project, you emit force.
My parents – Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth – discovered my talent for singing when I was a kid. I remember them telling me that I sang a classical piece after listening to it a couple of times when I was two-and-a-half years old.
If it’s time to party, it’s time for hip hop. I love Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye. If I’m chilling at home though, I’m listening to Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, DJ Shadow. I also listen to a lot of classical.
I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That’s when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.
The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.
