Classical Quotes - page 23

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades. (Martin Filler)
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial. View quote
Martin Filler
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore. View quote
Marvin Hamlisch
As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix. View quote
Matt Schulze
I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock. View quote
Matt Schulze
He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record. View quote
Matthew Sweet
I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience. View quote
Maya Beiser
I was born out of classical music. View quote
Mika
To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad! View quote
Mika
When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies. View quote
Mireille Enos
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)
I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music. View quote
Monica Raymund
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong. View quote
Neil Turok
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. View quote
Nita Ambani
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music. View quote
Philippe Petit
A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. View quote
Patti LuPone
By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made. View quote
Paul Berg
But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great. View quote
Rick Wakeman
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation. View quote
Ronnie Milsap
I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all. View quote
Ruben Studdard
With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force. (Renee Fleming)
I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that. View quote
Renee Fleming
I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre. View quote
Renee O'Connor
I had had a classical education prior to that. View quote
Skitch Henderson
We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts. View quote
Skitch Henderson