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I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to become an actor.
When I need some energy in the morning I can put a metal CD in my player, because it gets me going! Classical music will send me off the road!
I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'
My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.
I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.
I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen to a lot of classical music.
I'm not a classical player. I don't want to be a classical player. I love to improvise, because things happen that never happen anywhere else.
They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate. You can mix two styles and get fusion; any more, and you just get confusion.
I know I'll always want to come back to theatre, and I also thought if I can crack classical acting, everything else will probably seem easier.
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
Indian classical music is charming and currently there are a wide range of musicians who bring great classical tunes to the Bollywood industry.
When classical singers or dancers look at cinema with derision, I have half a heart to tell them that they're wrong. They're losing a platform.
The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.
I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another era.
I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.
As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.
I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.
I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.
I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.
We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.
I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.
In college, I had an early introduction to classical genetics from Professor Dan Lindsley, also an extraordinary teacher who influenced me greatly.
I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.
Among my classical dances, I loved my 'Mrig Trishna' dance. People should try that on stage. I don't know why they don't. It's beautifully written.
I am not aware of any sensible theory of how classical gravity could interact with quantum matter, and I can't imagine how such a theory might work.
Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
I grew up partially with classical music but listened to a lot of rock when I was young - I like acoustic, and folk from Mali and Armenia and Turkey.
It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.
My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.
Every day of my life has been a challenge - from singing a song that is not my type to being asked suddenly to sing a classical song with no practice.
I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.
If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone.
Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite detrimental to your body.
My training has been in Hindustani classical, and I have done a six-week course in English vocals at Berklee. The holistic learning has helped me a lot.
Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
I had never watched a live classical performance before I came to Bengaluru. I feel like this is the New York of India - a melting pot of many cultures.
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.
It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your child to be really good at classical music performance.