Classical Music Quotes

Schroder: I like Beethoven. But Brahms makes me glad I’m alive. I think I’ll go home and listen to Brahm’s Fourth. I have the need to have the feeling that it’s good to be alive.
Charlie Brown: I know what you mean. That’s a terrible feeling to have the need of having the feeling of having.

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

– Itzhak Perlman

Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on ‘Time And A Word.’

– Chris Squire

Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.

– Albert Hammond, Jr.

I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That’s when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.

– Alec Baldwin

I am a classical music lover – not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

– Eberhard Weber

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

– Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

– Gary Oldman

I was born out of classical music.

– Mika

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

– Felicity Kendal

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

– Joshua Bell

[On Beethoven] I don’t think he could have done better if he’d heard what he was playing, in my opinion.

– Ricky Gervais

As David Brent, in The Office (UK).

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

– Satyajit Ray

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

– Susanna Phillips

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

– Steve Hackett

The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.

– Tariq Ali