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Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms. Michael Haneke

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But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. Michael Tilson Thomas

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I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock. Mick Mars

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When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff. Miguel Zenon

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I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. Mike Figgis

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In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. Mike Figgis

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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

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

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What I want is a sort of new political realignment on libertarian/authoritarian lines, and I want a new consensus to emerge of disaffected liberals, classical liberals, dissident minorities like gays, small-state conservatives, libertarians, people who basically want to be left alone. Milo Yiannopoulos

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'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really big principal roles that I was ever given an opportunity to dance with American Ballet Theatre, and it was a huge step for the African-American community, I think, within the classical ballet world. Misty Copeland

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Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance. Misty Copeland

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

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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. Moira Kelly

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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist. Nas

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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult. Natalia Makarova

So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing a bit of classical in there. I mean, a true contemporary dancer has got ballet as their base and classical ballet, and that is their base. And then they choose to extemporize on that and go into a contemporary world. Nigel Lythgoe

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Classical ballet will never die. Ninette de Valois

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

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Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos. Nita Ambani

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I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down. Novak Djokovic

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