#classica

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#every #humans #imperfect #jazz #life

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#bizarre #classical #considering #contemporary #dance

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#classical #classical music #doing #experimental #i

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences. ↗

— Haley Reinhart

#blues #brought #classical #dad #different

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#being lazy #classical #doing #films #finish

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort. ↗

— Leila Josefowicz

#back #based #been #classical #classical music

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#cannot #classical #handle #i #shakespeare

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch? ↗

— Lara St. John

#cannot #classical #classical music #energy #epitome

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

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#any #best #call #classical #comparative