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Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.


Michael Haneke


#becomes #classical #develop #doing #else

I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well.


Katherine Jenkins


#always #artist #classical #classical training #core

I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that people didn't see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh - the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz - that would be brilliant!


Katherine Jenkins


#being #brilliant #classical #coming #i

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.


Katherine Jenkins


#accessible #best #brought #care #classical

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.


Katherine Jenkins


#always #classical #disagree #elitist #i

You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.


Katherine Jenkins


#classical #classical music #did #feel #getting

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.


Renee Fleming


#classical #constantly #european #i #ideal

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.


Alicia Keys


#classical music #day #even #had #hours

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.


Alison Krauss


#guess #i #started #violin #well

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.


Emeril Lagasse


#classically #england #evolve #growing #growing up






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