Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Charles Rosen

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

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Alexander McQueen

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Dennis Ritchie

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

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Gregory Maguire

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

Ian McLagan

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

Itzhak Perlman

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Mika

I was born out of classical music.

Joanna Newsom

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

Questlove

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

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Bob Weir

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Charles Spurgeon

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Chuck Mangione

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.

Robert Fripp

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Ringo Starr

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

Tom Morello

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.