#classical music

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#african american #american #classical #classical music #contract

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Joanna Newsom

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

— Leila Josefowicz

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A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. ↗

— Charles Rosen

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Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. ↗

— Steve Hackett

#classical music #hundred #least #music #obviously

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

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Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. ↗

— Tony Blair

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I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz. ↗

— Don Bluth

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I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. ↗

— Lee Konitz

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