Classical Quotes - page 24

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things. (Stacy Keach)
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. View quote
Steve Hackett
It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar. View quote
Steve Vai
Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion. View quote
Sukhwinder Singh
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. View quote
Suzi Quatro
I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world. View quote
Suzi Quatro
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles. View quote
Sara Zarr
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. View quote
Timothy West
I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. View quote
Tatiana Maslany
I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. View quote
William Mapother
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French. (Wang Leehom)
Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results. View quote
Wilhelm Ostwald
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens. View quote
Yael Naim
A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro. View quote
Zedd
A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. View quote
Russell Green
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. View quote
Vera Nazarian
General relativity has changed our understanding of space and time. ...The spacetime of general relativity ...is likely to be just a classical approximation that loses its meaning in the quantum theory, for the same reason the trajectory of a particle does. View quote
Carlo Rovelli
[I]n a fundamental description of nature we must "forget time"... this can be done in the classical and in the quantum theory. View quote
Carlo Rovelli
People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical, when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life. View quote
Catherine Deneuve
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. View quote
Charles Rosen
The buffoonery of Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart is only an exaggeration of an essential quality of the classical style. This style was, in its origins, basically a comic one. (Charles Rosen)
The song cycle is the most original musical form created in the first half of the nineteenth century. It most clearly embodies the Romantic conception of experience as a gradual unfolding and illumination of reality in place of the Classical insistence on an initial clarity. The form of Schubert's song cycle is not less precise than that of a Classical sonata, but its precision is only gradually comprehended as it unfolds. View quote
Charles Rosen
The creation of a classical style was not so much the achievement of an ideal as the reconciliation of conflicting ideals-the striking of an optimum balance between them. View quote
Charles Rosen
The musical language which made the classical style possible is that of tonality, which was not a massive, immobile system but a living, gradually changing language from its beginning. It had reached a new and important turning point just before the style of Haydn and Mozart took shape. View quote
Charles Rosen
The relation of tonic to dominant is the foundation of Western triadic tonality. The attempt of the early nineteenth century to substitute third or mediant relationships for the classical dominant amounted to a frontal attack on the principles of tonality, and it eventually contributed to the ruin of triadic tonality. This ruin was accomplished from within the system, however, as mediant relationships were essential to tonality as conceived in the eighteenth century. View quote
Charles Rosen