Quotes of: Classical-composers Keyword

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

Nina Simone

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

Park Chan-wook

I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

Debra Wilson

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

Puffin Classics Anne of Green Gables

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Mike Figgis

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

Lucia Micarelli

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

Brett Favre

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Birdy

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

Novak Djokovic

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

Simon McBurney

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.

Gunther Schuller

I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.

Cecilia Bartoli

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

Jascha Heifetz

Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

Karen DeCrow

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Alfred Brendel

Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.

Willy Ley

There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.

Joshua Roman

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 has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Leila Josefowicz

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

Charles Hazlewood

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

Guler Sabanci