#classical music

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

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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos. ↗

— Jon Lord

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As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. ↗

— Julie Andrews

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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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In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. ↗

— Mike Figgis

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I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

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I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head. ↗

— John Fahey

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We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

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