Classical Quotes

'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does. Robert Gottlieb
Beauty Sleeping Too Everything Classical Wrong Most Vulnerable Greatest Does Ballets Go Often Challenging
Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend symphony concerts, operas, and stage plays. Rodney Stark
Music Stage Symphony Magazines Classical Classical Music More Take Attend Likely Operas Read Concerts Than Listen Substantially Newspapers Regular Plays
If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone. Roger Penrose
Alone Mathematics You Problems Solved Classical Computation Come Cannot Which Realize Many Even
When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing. Roger Waters
Guitar First Classical Got Spanish Thing
As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio. Roy Harper
Music Age Listening Before Young Bits Classical Echoes Stuff Like Well Hall Child Young Child Really Radio
Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their life... I never wanted to be known as one thing; that is the reason I do classical theater, write, direct and the blessings God has given me... I want to share. Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Life God Me Rest Young Kids One Thing One-Hit Some Classical Direct Given Write Never Share Look Blessings Known Hit Want Wanted Theater Young Kids Reason Star Thing
I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all. Ruben Studdard
Matter Jazz Classical Sing Comfortable Gospel Am Anything
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses. Rufus Wainwright
World Treat Try Jazz Easier Exactly Classical Masses Make Up Really
I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world. Ry Cooder
Music World Nervous Composers Classical Classical Music Ravel Soothing Particular Like French Debussy
People wanted to do science outside of classical institutions like universities or big corporations, so we embraced it. Ryan Bethencourt
Science People Big Corporations Embraced Classical Outside Like Institutions Big Corporations Wanted Universities
I trained as a classical actor in London for three years. We did Tennessee Williams and dialect and accent classes; they were one of my favorite things to do each week. And we'd strip it down to the phonetics and listen to the sound. It was a really interesting way to look at it all. Sam Palladio
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Samuel Johnson
World Men Classical Parole Over Literary Quotation Literary Men
Having started in theatre, for a long time I wanted to be a classical actress. But I've always loved making people laugh - at school, I was quite mischievous, and bit by bit, I found myself working more and more in comedy. Sarah Alexander
Time Myself Theatre People School Comedy Long Long Time Bit Laugh Classical Having More More And More Mischievous Always Making Quite Wanted Loved Working Found Actress Started
I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces. Savion Glover
Great Bach Some Classical Pieces Did Where Production
Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music. Shankar Mahadevan
Music Other Despite Musician Classical Poking Genres Being Nose Keep
My basic grammar is in Indian classical music, Carnatic music, and Hindustani music, but I don't believe that that is the only form of music I will learn. I don't believe in that, because I am a very open minded person. Shankar Mahadevan
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I believe that classical music comes through listening and practice, and it can be fun both for the singer or performer and the listener or audience, as long as the performer is taught to recognise the pulse of the audience. Shankar Mahadevan
Music Listening Long Practice Believe Pulse Recognise Classical Classical Music Both Through Performer Singer Audience Listener Taught Fun
If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is a popular medium and has a broad reach. There have been films with ghazals, classical and folk songs sung by local artists, which gave them popularity. Shankar Mahadevan
Cinema Films Medium Gave Local Broad Independent Out Sung Folk Promoted Folk Songs Some Classical Songs Reach Audience Been Artists Which Them Should Popular Using Popularity Film
I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different kinds of music around me because of my parents. Shruti Haasan
Music Me Parents Different Kinds Favourites Kinds Classical Classical Music Because Around Rock Always Rock-N-Roll Been Up Trained Roll Blues Different Grown Grown-Up
I started officially learning music when I was 14. I learnt Hindustani classical. Shruti Haasan
Music Learning Classical Learnt Officially Started
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it. Simon McBurney
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We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music. Simon Rattle
Music People Those Classical Classical Music Normally Listen Who Even Bring Need
Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts. Sir Mix-a-Lot
Classical Concerts Audience Create Pop Pops
There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore about the physical and mental health of the performer. Stephen Hough
Music Health Mental Health Care Degree Doubt Entered No Doubt Physical Classical About Classical Music Mental Seems No-One Almost Performer Commercialism Anymore Certainly
I can't sight-read classical etudes - I would have to see it and learn it. But yeah, I can read. It is a wonderful tool. It's like speaking another language. Anyone that says reading music can hurt your playing is either stupid, lazy, or ignorant. Steve Lukather
Music Hurt Wonderful Language Stupid Reading Tool Says Would See Classical Lazy Like Learn Read Another Yeah Anyone Either Ignorant Your Speaking Playing
The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument. Steve Vai
You Guitar Back Unlike Extremely Classical Classical Guitar Know Instrument Gotta Times Hold Dynamic Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Regular Should Electric Electric Guitar Play
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