#classical

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. ↗

— Brian Greene

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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

#because #classical #classical music #completely #crazy

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice. ↗

— Shuler Hensley

#background #ballet #best #classical #classical training

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

#classical #classical music #effect #i #i love

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#eastern #i #kinds #like #listen

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#birthday #classical #classical guitar #could #dad

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world. ↗

— Suzi Quatro

#because #being #big #brother #classical

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#again #classical #comedy #fictive #found

Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning Baroque 'opera seria'; however, paradoxically his personal obsession to obtain complete artistic freedom generated disastrous side-effects that eventually impeded the progress of opera in London. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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