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#classical

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I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.


Doc Severinsen


#classical #coming #feel #focus #got

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.


Hu Shih


#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.


Mike Shinoda


#eventually #i #keyboards #led #park

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


Carly Simon


#classical #everything #father #just #mother

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


#because #classical #classical music #dedicated #excellence

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


Nina Simone


#classical #classical music #define #jazz #music

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


#become #black #choices #classic #classical

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

Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.


Wilhelm Ostwald


#afterwards #classical #considerations #course #determined






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