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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

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from. — Alicia Keys

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

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical. — Eric Close

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation. — Armando Iannucci

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music. — Gayle Forman

The classical music world is so snobbish. — Andre Rieu

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 to listen to classical music ... I like mainline jazz. — Herb Alpert

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

The Mozart Effect comes to mind: the popular idea that listening to classical music makes students better at math. — John Medina

New music is absolutely integral to classical music. — Susanna Phillips

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz. — Terry Teachout

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. — George Steiner

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

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music. — Caroline Shaw

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

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records. — Stephen Sondheim

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk. — Walter Moers

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western. — A.R. Rahman

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music. — Yngwie Malmsteen

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

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music, — Enya

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

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world. — Jonny Greenwood

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do. — David Garrett

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. — Julie Andrews

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. — Richard Strauss

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats. — Frank Fairfield

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces. — Jake Shimabukuro

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort. — Leila Josefowicz

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. — Luka Sulic

I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues. — Elizabeth Jagger

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either. — Agnes Obel

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical. — Robert Ashley

In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society. — Laurence Equilbey

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. — Gary Oldman

I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven. — Joan Rivers

Be the person your pet rat thinks you are! — Diana Hockley

This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays?
to give a ground of meaning to our pain? — Adrienne Rich

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since. — Herbie Hancock

Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.' — Chris Squire

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times. — Michael Tilson Thomas

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music. — Moby

Drink a cup of herbal tea, if you like. Listen to some soft classical music and prepare yourself to drift — Robin S. Sharma

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud. — Ian McLagan

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. — Jan Garbarek

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock ... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. — Jimmy Page

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available. — Jeanine Tesori

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket. — Gustavo Dudamel

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music. — Herbie Hancock

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear. — Kiesza

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur. — Jane Siberry

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it. — Kenny G

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it. — Ledisi

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Classical music can rock you! — Ji-Hae Park

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

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 love listening to classical music. — Katharine McPhee

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

The only difference between death and love, one supposedly lasts forever, the other makes you think of classical music. — Mark Cirino

Jazz will be the classical music of the future. — Dizzy Gillespie

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. — Philippe Petit

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 think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music. — Nicki Minaj

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic. — Ha-Joon Chang

Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be. — Lucia Micarelli

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. — Chris Martin

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera. — Luciano Pavarotti

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it. — John Corigliano

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

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

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

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

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

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

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