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Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.
Oct 1, 2025
Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.
I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.
Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert.
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.
Where words fail, music speaks.