Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Birdy

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

Dennis Ritchie

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Gregory Maguire

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

Ian McLagan

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

Mika

I was born out of classical music.

Itzhak Perlman

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Joanna Newsom

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

Satyajit Ray

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Bob Weir

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

Charles Spurgeon

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Arthur Honegger

Music is geometry in time.

Bruce Springsteen

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Chuck Mangione

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.