Top 1200 Classical Composers Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.

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

I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.

Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite detrimental to your body.

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual.

Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

I love it that my father is such a classical musician and such a traditionalist, and at the same time has had a wild life and a crazy time.

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

When you look at Istanbul, from Byzantium to the present day, it's striking how it has always been a city of the people, with a political voice, right from its early classical history.

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think to myself: 'If Papa Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus or the red-headed Vivaldi were here with a camera, they'd snap a picture of what's in front of me.' So I take the picture for them.

There was a time when people were afraid that film music would totally displace classical music.

Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a band called the Flying Luttenbachers. Go see the Flying Luttenbachers when they're in your town. He's one of the greatest rock composers who ever lived, and he's struggling and living like a poverty-stricken hermit.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

My dad was my first influence. He played classical guitar and my uncle Ron played the blues.

When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which means it's not something standard that you can copy.

In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!

No, playing online is an entirely different experience and classical chess events never happen online.

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

Occasionally, if I'm in doubt over specific Indian classical or raga-related questions, I'll find myself going back to my lesson tapes or my father's recordings.

The tasks of paleontologists and classical historians and archaeologists are remarkably similar - to excavate, decipher and bring to life the tantalizing remnants of a time we will never see.

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

I enjoy every role that I do. But I would love to do a dance-based film. It can even be the biopic of a great Indian classical dancer. I want to push boundaries.

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical background and upbringing was very much a mix.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.

I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

My appeal to the composers, whoever touches an old classic, will only be this much: take it up only if you can express it your way, too; work hard with the writers; make them see your new vision for the song; change the lyrics, yet, keep the soul of the original song intact.

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it. It's there for everyone. I play for the people.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

The contemporary programs in London are harder and much more damaging for the body. With classical ballet you are relaxed mentally because it's what you learnt, but I want to push myself.

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

The terms 'progressive' and 'liberal' have virtually nothing to do with each other anymore. And if you are a classical liberal, you certainly aren't a leftist.

Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

I really hope that I can continue to do classical theatre - it's something I am really passionate about and I'd love to explore.