148 Quotes About Classical

  • Author Lionel Richie
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    It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

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  • Author Lionel Richie
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    Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

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  • Author Steve Robinson
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    Ray's passion, vision and devotion to WFMT fueled its growth for over 40 years, ... The success we enjoy today as one of the premier classical music radio stations in the world is due in large part to his uncompromising standards and unending enthusiasm for the station.

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  • Author Trevor Rabin
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    I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

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  • Author Ving Rhames
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    The training at Juilliard School is classical training, and it really makes one very versatile.

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  • Author Cassie Steele
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    I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.

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  • Author Floyd Skloot
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    Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.

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