Quotes about classical
classical distant held keeps music name people
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.
classical detective primarily propaganda stories
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
classical jazz tunnel vision
I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music, Herbie Hancock
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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. Aleksey Igudesman
classical monologues time watch
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. Kunal Nayyar
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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. Kristan Higgins
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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. Rachel Platten
classical rock roll umbrella
It's like jazz, rock 'n' roll and classical music. They're all different disciplines under the umbrella of art.
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It's huge. It's just a classical storm. It's gorgeous, from a weather person's point of view.
classical music
It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it. Joshua Bell
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I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well. Katherine Jenkins
classical music people
You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.
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Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood. Terry Teachout
classical govern issues understanding
When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile. Lawrence M. Krauss
classical commit exempt fringe people themselves
We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that. Lola Kirke
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The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.
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If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime. Mike Love
classical-music born
I was born out of classical music. Mika
classical-music concentration committed
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life. Questlove
classical scary trained workforce
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre. Frances McDormand
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I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers. Tom Scholz
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I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
classical-music wells
I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well. Birdy
classical crossover far music
As far as doing TV, I do think there's a big audience out there that could enjoy classical music, but they don't know how to find it, and sometimes by doing different things... crossover things probably make up about 5% of what I do.
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Ray's passion, vision and devotion to WFMT fueled its growth for over 40 years, ... The success we enjoy today as one of the premier classical music radio stations in the world is due in large part to his uncompromising standards and unending enthusiasm for the station.
classical curriculum discipline education generally regarded return rhetoric synthesis unifying
Our curriculum has become much more cafeteria-like. In classical times, education was regarded as generally rhetorical. Rhetoric is the unifying force. This is a return to that synthesis of rhetoric and discipline knowledge.
classical happen raises time wish
Anything can happen in a classical race. I wish it was like this every time because it raises the intensity.
classical lessons melodies music putting singer stories
I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them. Cassie Steele
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This is going to fill a huge void for classical musicfor kids, adults and everybody.
classical concept entirely music naive nature turned utterly
I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox. Eric Whitacre
classical guitar maybe
There are more compositions for classical guitar than any other instrument, other than, maybe piano.
classical discourage
When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go. Jamie Cullum
classical-music
I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile. Dennis Ritchie