Classical Musician Quotes

#1. I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

Jeanine Tesori

#2. My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?

Kevin Johnson

#3. I know I'm an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I'm not a jazz musician. I'm not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It's in between these areas.

Anthony Braxton

#4. My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

John Sebastian

#5. I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Ji-Hae Park

#6. I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you really want to do something different, don't be afraid to do so. Think of music itself and not the rules or expectations of people.

Charlie Albright

#7. But if desire always within us be,

Lao-Tzu

#8. Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Yo-Yo Ma

#9. 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.

Terry Teachout

#10. An orgasm a day." "Will keep the doctor away,

Lucian Bane

#11. At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

Herbie Hancock

#12. Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.

Brian McKnight

#13. In classical music, love is based on bitin'
imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.

Todd Boyd

#14. When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Billy Joel

#15. I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

Ken Hensley

#16. I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a fine improvisational musician. I pretty much have to stick to what's written on the page.

Condoleezza Rice

#17. Over the years, I've learned that a confident person doesn't concentrate or focus on their weaknesses - they maximize their strengths.

Joyce Meyer

#18. My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations, but interestingly, I didn't become conscious of wanting to be a musician until I was about 11. I was a rather late starter.

Gunther Schuller

#19. I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

Richard Strauss

#20. The white man who is our agent is so stingy that he carries a linen rag in his pocket into which to blow his nose, for fear he might blow away something of value. - Piapot

Kent Nerburn

#21. There is more than one sort of prison, Captain," Chirrut said. "I sense that you carry yours wherever you go.

Alexander Freed

#22. Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

Dave Barry

#23. I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.

Anna Meredith

#24. I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

Roald Dahl

#25. Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

Christian McKay