Classical Music Quotes. QuotesGram

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.