Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Stieg Larsson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Aleksey Igudesman

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Kunal Nayyar

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

Kristan Higgins

I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.

Rachel Platten

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

Matt Witt

It's like jazz, rock 'n' roll and classical music. They're all different disciplines under the umbrella of art.

Bob Hopkins

It's huge. It's just a classical storm. It's gorgeous, from a weather person's point of view.

Robert Moog

When I opened the T-burg shop, I thought I was going into the electronic kit business, ... Then I met a composer who wanted to make electronic music on tape. We got together just for fun.

Michael Feinstein

I hear the name Gershwin and I think of the most incredibly talented, prolific, extraordinary composer of the century, and his music is as fresh and vital today as it was when he originally created it.

Joshua Bell

In a way, the highest praise you could give to a composer like Bach was to take and make your own arrangement; it was sort of an homage to that composer and to his work, so it wasn't considered sacrilegious to do something like that.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Brian Eno

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

Richard Rodgers

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Jean Cocteau

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

Harrison Birtwistle

I'm not an architectural composer.

Michael Tilson Thomas

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.