#classic

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

#cannot #classical #classical music #energy #epitome

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#american #classic #desire #felt #form

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas! ↗

— Norah Jones

#classical music #far #genetically #grew #i

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#britain #career #classical #four #had

I like the classics! ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#i #like

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#classical #classical guitar #did #guitar #guitar players

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#classical #consumer #contrast #economic #economic life

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#classical #fusion #had #hold #jazz

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#customer #important #rely #you #your

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer. ↗

— John Sebastian

#father #mother #musician #writer