Classical Quotes

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

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or Ravel.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

I'm an opera lover.

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Eternal Rome

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.

The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.

Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For me, the breakthrough was going to live in California. I exercised. I drank less. It was one of the things about California that had a positive impact on me.

I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

When you train as a dancer, you understand you have to work exceptionally hard. I think dancers are the hardest - working people in show business. You have to push your body beyond where you thought it could go. It's athleticism. Perfection doesn't exist, but with classical ballet, there is an ideal, and I got obsessed with that ideal. In some ways, it was problematic because I don't have an ideal ballet body, but the discipline is what I carry with me to this day. That's my park, the discipline of dancing.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.

Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.

A temperate style is alone classical.

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.

Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.