#classic

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. ↗

— Carly Simon

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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important. ↗

— Nina Simone

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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. ↗

— Nina Simone

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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist. ↗

— Nina Simone

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Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to. ↗

— Joe Slovo

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I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

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I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

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And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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