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I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.
I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces.
I hail from a family of musicians for the last 18 generations. My grandfather was a classical singer; his father was a sitar player.
Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.
Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.
Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.
I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
In subjects that physicists think of as purely quantum, classical ideas and classical computational techniques can often be powerful.
To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.
My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.
I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.
I had classical training at London's Royal Ballet School, and my first job was with the Semperoper Dresden ballet company in Germany.
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.
I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.
I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
My whole life is classical now. Except my wife. I don't have a classical wife. I have a classy wife, but I don't have a classical wife.
So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.
My mom was an opera singer. She did all the classical music, and I heard it. I know every opera. I know every classical piece of music.
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.
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
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.
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.
'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
It is not about classical career questions but about questions for your life. Those are the questions that drive you on as a human being.
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.
It falls in all the cracks, from classical music to jazz,. Anywhere there's a hole in the floor, my music falls through it. But that's OK.
My singing is not Hindustani classical or too western. It is a balance of Indian and western music. That's the kind of music I grew up on.
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.
If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent of Beyonce and Jay-Z.
I think that having a platform and having a voice to be seen by people beyond the classical ballet world has really been my power, I feel.
When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.
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.'
I love it that my father is such a classical musician and such a traditionalist, and at the same time has had a wild life and a crazy time.
Why English music is being taught in some schools? The government should make arrangements to promote Indian classical music among students.
I have a great liking for the Chamba folk music, which depicts the beauty of women and the mountains with a touch of Indian classical music.
Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his guitar playing.
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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.
Classical music can be catchy, so can African instrumental guitar music. It's not just pop songs that are catchy. Rhythms can be catchy, too.
I made a decision that I wanted to do five years of classical theatre before I did anything else, which was a very unfashionable thing to do.
My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.