Top 1200 Classical Guitar Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

The soundtrack for 'Mr. Fraud' is classical with a decent level of fusion.

The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great guitar player, so pushing myself as a guitar player or pushing myself as a singer, as a performer, and just riding that fine line between being so hard on yourself that it's counter-productive and being so hard on yourself that nothing is ever good enough is what drives me.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

I started officially learning music when I was 14. I learnt Hindustani classical.

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.

Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it.

For me, it's classical music I started with and I admire Jacqueline du Pre.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

I listen to classical music when I need to relax. It depends a lot on mood.

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

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

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

My entire family are in music and my father was a classical singer, teacher and composer.

I like reading and writing, and I am a trained classical dancer.

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.