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

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. — Matt Schulze

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz. — Alan Vega

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie. — Enya

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics — Sidney Coleman

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

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy. — Robert Greene

I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified. — Willie Nelson

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. — Gregory Maguire

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets. — Misty Copeland

In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad. — Mary Renault

Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it. — Esme Wynne-Tyson

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

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. — Zaha Hadid

When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart. — Felicity Kendal

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity. — Charles Peguy

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. — Quinlan Terry

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet. — Benjamin Zander

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots. — Andrew Bird

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking. — Rolonda Watts

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'. — Robert H. Schuller

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. — Kiana Tom

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him. — Warren Zevon

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs. — Terence McKenna

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. — Suzi Quatro

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker? — Arthur Miller

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age. — Bonnie Raitt

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version. — Charles Hazlewood

Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply. — Edmund Phelps

The power of classical music turns my words into fire. — A.D. Posey

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

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong. — Neil Turok

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked ... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos. — Jon Lord

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. — Tony Blair

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music. — Billy Sheehan

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic. — Nigel Kennedy

Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young. — Planningtorock

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer. — Park Chan-wook

The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago. — Tariq Ali

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly

Heidegger's parlamblings on 'Nothing' and 'Not' and 'the Nothing that Nothings' were the last supposedly respectable gasp of classical philosophy. — John Gardner

In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one. — Peter Straub

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together. — Charles Bukowski

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal. — Charles Koch

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way. — Aleksey Igudesman

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. — Frank Black

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. — Boris Spassky

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him. — Wes Montgomery

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick. — Aaron Zigman

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s. — Christian McKay

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life. — Questlove

Classical Studies
Question: What were the circumstances of Julius Caesar's death?

Answer: Suspicious ones — Richard Benson

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value. — Vivien Leigh

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes. — Luka Sulic

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone. — Laura Mvula

I like to listen the blues and some classical. — Peter Tork

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. — Gustavo Dudamel

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. — George Orwell

I've learned what 'classical' means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence. — Gustav Holst

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. — Carly Simon

There was one point on which they were agreed: there was no way you could play classical music on a white piano. — Pascal Garnier

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. — Billy Joel

Classical music can rock you! — Ji-Hae Park

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. — Henry Flynt

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. — Harold Macmillan

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs. — Tom Araya

Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those. — Luka Sulic

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. — Maurice Sendak

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics. — Richard P. Feynman

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. — Kenneth Clark

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

The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

In college, I had an early introduction to classical genetics from Professor Dan Lindsley, also an extraordinary teacher who influenced me greatly. — Bruce Beutler

My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it. — Simon McBurney

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies — Paulo Coelho

I love listening to classical music. — Katharine McPhee

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day. — Seymour Stein

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French. — Wang Leehom

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad! — Mika.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. — Jim Butcher

A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of. — Raymond Chandler

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music. — Joanna Newsom

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. — Zubin Mehta

We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all. — Stjepan Hauser

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process. — Annie Parisse

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar. — Fred Frith

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

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public. — Charles Rosen

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. — Hugh Laurie

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. — Yann Tiersen

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

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music. — Michael Tilson Thomas

I had had a classical education prior to that. — Skitch Henderson

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. — Frederic Bastiat

The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. — Ludwig Von Mises

Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo. — Shobhaa De