Top 1200 Classical Guitar Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Classical dance is a growing and ever-evolving art.

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

I've played classical violin since I was 5 years old.

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.

The guitar, by its very nature, the nature of its sound, by the soft nuance of its powerful and ancient voice, by the magic of the tone, goes directly to the part of oneself where love is felt. When I hear the sound of the guitar, it goes to some part inside of me that opens the door that holds feelings of love and everything that is beautiful which lives inside of me.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

I studied classical percussion for ten years.

I actually studied Indian classical vocal music.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.

Classical ballet will never die.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

I studied classical music in high school.

I play a lot of classical music around the house.

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.

The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been plugging into something since 1931, and we are not about to stop now. Current advances in technology means we can have a huge array of sounds at our fingertips, and this offers amazing possibilities to the contemporary composer. It is always a guitar (I don't play synthesizer) but it becomes something else all together - more like sculpting sound in real time using metal wires, 5 fingers and a pick.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.

Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.

Classical slap-stick rappers need Chapstick.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

I am a trained singer in Hindustani and classical music.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I'm away from a guitar, and I never like it! There's always one close by, and I play every day. Or I'll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It's an extension of me, really.

Deutsche Grammophon really has a grasp of the classical repertoire.

The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people. Young people aren't starting to listen to Jazz and carrying it along in their lives with them. Jazz is becoming more like Classical music in terms of its relationship to the audience. And just a Classical music is grappling with the problem of audience development, so is Jazz grappling with this problem. I believe, deeply that Jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say to ordinary people. But it has to be systematic about getting out the message.

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And I don't collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman's guitar and Johnny Cash's guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn't resist.

Any form of classical music is made for youth.