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It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it.
Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
I have been exposed to different kinds of Marathi and Hindi music, classical music, and English songs since childhood.
People wanted to do science outside of classical institutions like universities or big corporations, so we embraced it.
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.
My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.
Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.
I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.
My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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.
The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.
The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece.
Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.
Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.
My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.
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.
With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.
I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical music like every day.
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.
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.
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.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
If you learn classical guitar, you play Bach, and then John Dowland. He's the greatest. He's interesting for many, many reasons.
I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.
There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama?
Of course, there will always be, you know, conservative classical people who will judge you, but you know, who cares about them?
I really hope that I can continue to do classical theatre - it's something I am really passionate about and I'd love to explore.
If you call yourself a singer, then you must have the ability to sing anything, whether it's pop, classical, rock, sufi, or folk.
I would love to hone my skills and learn Indian classical music. It's a vast sea of melodies and ragas, and I enjoy it immensely.
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.
I know Ornette was playing violin sometimes - that was his bridge into the classical world, to break up that whole pecking order.
Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music.
It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.
I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.
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.
I finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task at all.
Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.
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.
My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.