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Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.
I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.
It depends on my mood but classical music is what I am drawn towards. I also listen to Sufi music and bhajans too.
I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.
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.
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
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'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.
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 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.
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 come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.
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.
There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama?
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.
It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.
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.
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.
I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.
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.
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.
Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
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!
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.
The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.
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.'