Best Classical Musicians Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.”

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“You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or "New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame.”

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Author:Rahsaan Roland Kirk

“I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you really want to do something different, don't be afraid to do so. Think of music itself and not the rules or expectations of people.”

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Author:Charlie Albright

“I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.”

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Author:Brian Eno

“I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.”

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Author:James Brown

“I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.”

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Author:Jeanine Tesori

“Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think it's important for us to continue to do that, and I don't see enough of it today.”

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Author:George Duke

“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.”

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Author:Kin Hubbard

“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”

“I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have a career as a college professor, and yet I did all those things and I did them well. I put out some records in the 1980's and 1990's that changed the way some trumpet players played.”

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Author:Paul Smoker

“My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.”

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Author:John Sebastian

“Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.”

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Author:Seymour Stein

“When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

Source: Chagall at the Met

“I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.”

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Author:Bob Newhart

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

Source: Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

“Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”

“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.”

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Author:Igor Stravinsky

“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.”

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Author:Michael Tilson Thomas

“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”

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Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

Source: Chagall at the Met

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

“I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.”

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Author:Anthony Braxton

“Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.”

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Author:Howard Dietz

“I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.”

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Author:Serj Tankian

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