Top 1200 Classical Guitar Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important.

Usually people like experimental music which is usually not the case in Carnatic classical concerts.

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.

Classical dance is so pure and beautiful you don't need to add anything to its authenticity or beauty.

Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because there's something incredible about the way that an out-of-tune guitar becomes part of the song on a record. I won't be precious and say it's part of the composition - that's nonsensica l - but chance occurrences are so crucial to what's distinctive. It's the fingerprints all over so many of these recordings.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

I listen to a lot of non-classical music at home, but I don't get many opportunities to sing it.

I would say 'Home' is a lot richer and deeper than my earlier classical.

I was brought up by my mother, and she is my guru in classical singing. I have trained primarily under her.

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

I probably have the most versatile playlist in the world, from country to rap to classic rock to classical.

There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk.

When you learn Indian classical music, sometimes it takes decades to perfect a raga.

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

I don't run after money or fame. The only thing I have always wished is to be a classical singer.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

I was able to turn to classical music many people, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

I love Western classical music - I grew up on that thanks to my parents who loved it too.

Classical dancing has always been the stepping stone of every dancer's life.

My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!

I have been singing since I was a child, and I am a trained Hindustani classical singer.

I trained in London as a classical actor, but you've no idea what way your career will go.

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

[Chamber of Reflection off of Salad Days]I think it's probably that one. There's no guitar on that song, I've never recorded a song with absolutely no guitar, which is interesting. The idea behind it, well it's a Free Mason reference because before they become Free Mason's they had to go into this room called the Chamber of Reflection where they think about the life they brought with them, the life they've lived up until this point and all their wrong and right doings. And that's basically what I did with this album.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.