If I switch on the radio and hear some nice classical music, I will sit and listen to it but I don’t sort of play records or go for any particular type of music.
There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.
It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
It’s hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel’s success in classical music.
I don’t believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: ‘So what else is new?’
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.
The premise for me has always been that it’s vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that’s an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me.
I just feel lucky to have had my training at Juilliard. Even though it is a ‘classical’ training programme, they also prepare you for all mediums. They don’t teach specific techniques or subscribe to a specific school of thought about acting.
I am a trained singer in Hindustani and classical music.
No, playing online is an entirely different experience and classical chess events never happen online.
Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.
Yes, I started piano and classical singing, I wanted to study jazz, but I tried to go to the Polish University of Jazz, but they didn’t want me. In Krakow, I wanted to conduct, they didn’t want me. And I start to think, ‘I have to do something.’ In Krakow there was drama and music. I started to study.
I’m not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now – a mix of everything.
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
When I need some energy in the morning I can put a metal CD in my player, because it gets me going! Classical music will send me off the road!
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
I am a trained classical dancer.
My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical … It gets confusing!
I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk.
Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I’d put on a record and proceed, silently. I’d keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn’t died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I’d love to do a death scene.
I had had a classical education prior to that.
I had 10 years of lessons at the conservatory in Belgium, studying classical music. I learned how to sing, play the piano, and all the theory that I needed. By the time I left, I had confidence in my skills, and I knew that the experience had prepared me to become a real professional.
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic of dreamwork can suture ‘War’ with ‘Terror’ in this way, since terrorists were, by classical definition, those without ‘legitimate authority’ to wage war.
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don’t think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they’re going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.
I’m very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There’s nothing so beautiful.
For ‘The Grace of Kings,’ I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of the complexity of the politics and the ‘surprisingly modern’ reactions of the historical figures to recurrent problems of state administration.
I’d like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It’s not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang.
Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that’s what I really like.
The voice muscle doesn’t last forever. I have a lot of friends who are classical and opera singers. My friend Beverly Sills stopped singing in her 50s, so I’m careful with mine. But I’ll keep going as long as it lets me.
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It’s got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it’s very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There’s always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that.
By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don’t have the discipline to go to the gym.
My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
I was surrounded by classical music, art and ballet all these things. But they also had a football field and it was at the conservatoire I decided to be a footballer.
My whole life, I’ve always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.
I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn’t go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.
I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I’d fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it’s much, much more diluted.
Any form of classical music is made for youth.
We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too… obviously… a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.
I’m a classical type of guy. Whatever’s out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.
When I was young, I took classical ballet lessons, but I wasn’t very good at it. It was really frustrating because I wanted to be good at it. When I stopped having lessons, I began to dance and improvise, and I felt more comfortable.
The beautiful thing about ‘Bhav’ is that it reaches out to a far more number than just the typical set of people who say they like classical music and dance.
I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.
Among my classical dances, I loved my ‘Mrig Trishna’ dance. People should try that on stage. I don’t know why they don’t. It’s beautifully written.
My mother has learnt classical singing from renowned artiste Druba Ghosh at Sangeet Mahabharati, a music school. During my vacations, my father would sent me to this same school.
One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.
Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.
Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.
All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
I have so many references in my head – flamenco, classical, Latin, too many. I come in and put it all on the table, with no prejudice, and just start working, working, working.
