Famous Quotes & Sayings

Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.

The zeitgeist right now is instability, where the classical political constellations that we used to rely on are no longer there.

Herbie Hancock

I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got exposed to jazz.

Cassie Steele

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.

Increasingly in the last few years, Europe and the United States have been kind of going their own separate ways when it comes to classical music, ... I think there's more of a division than there was 10 years ago, especially since people aren't making recordings in the same way they used to.

I like people to see that classical music is not stuffy. It's something for any generation.

Alicia Keys

It's perfect for me, ... It's a period piece, and I'm totally in love with period pieces. And that it is about this woman who was a classical prodigy, who grew up in Harlem, where I grew up, who is obviously half-black and half-white, like I am, who studied classical (music), like I did. But the twist comes in for me, obviously, because the time period had so much tension.

This is definitely a departure from the classical musicals we've done in the past. I wanted to do something totally different and quirky and weird.

Jack Bruce

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

It's all a part of working on your craft. There's a reason that fencing has always been included in a classical theatrical training program. . . It really has to do with two actors who are facing each other, and are interacting with each other and trying to tell a story.

Herbie Hancock

It's very different from classical music. In classical music, you are playing something that is written by someone else.

I hope the commercial market will pick up on this. We are all in this together. We all want to get classical music out there.

Herbie Hancock

I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours that are more in the line that classical musicians play.

I'm a classically trained musician. Most of the time I'm playing solo classical guitar. It's really exciting to be able to meld with a group of musicians, express myself on a larger palette.

It's like jazz, rock 'n' roll and classical music. They're all different disciplines under the umbrella of art.

It's huge. It's just a classical storm. It's gorgeous, from a weather person's point of view.

Joshua Bell

It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.

Juliet Rylance

If you love classical playwrights, seek out companies or places that are doing that. If you love modern playwrights, try to find groups who are writing new plays or working on new plays. If you love television, watch as much theater and film as you can.

Seth Numrich

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.

Rachel Platten

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.

Joshua Bell

In those projects with Sting and Josh Groban and people like that, I see a very interesting effect: their fans coming to my classical concerts, people who've never been to a classical show at all.

Emmy Rossum

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though, and this is more a hybrid of pop and classical music.

Mika

I was born out of classical music.

Judith Jamison

He played classical piano, sang opera and was a carpenterall as an amateur. But what he did was extraordinary.

Emanuel Ungaro

I am able to do normal things, classical if you want.

David Hallberg

Certainly, when you train as a classical dancer, you are very much influenced by 'Giselle.' You see it all the time; you start to learn the steps a little.

I listen to a lot less classical music today than I used to,

Kyle MacLachlan

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.

Jessye Norman

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.

David Hallberg

I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.

Questlove

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Joanna Newsom

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

Itzhak Perlman

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.