#classica

The classical music world is so snobbish. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#classical music #music #music world #world

I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#been #blessed #classical #fit #fortunately

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#approaching #based #classical #get #hamlet

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

#background #bar #become #classical #day

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#britain #career #classical #four #had

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#genres #now #purity #ridiculous #rigorous

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#classical #correctly #difference #divine #division

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

#best #classical #classical music #does #i

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

#architecture #classical #classical music #does #each

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made. ↗

— Paul Berg

#becoming #biochemistry #biology #classical #genes