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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Age Blues Classical Get Jazz More Revered You

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We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

~Boris Spassky

Topics: Actor Chess Cinema Classical Compare Latter Like Prefer Rapid Some Theatre Work

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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

Topics: Blues Classical Did Guitar Guitar Players Jazz Listened Players Rock Rock And Roll Roll Same Same Thing Spanish Thing Voice Well

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I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

~Brad Paisley

Topics: Alternative Big Big Fan Blues Classical Classical Music Collection Fan Few Few Things Like Might Music People Rock Sure Surprise Things Cd

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Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

~Branford Marsalis

Topics: Classical Every Humans Imperfect Jazz Life Man Note Perfect Performance Quest Reasons Right Right Man Trouble

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On the first album, we were trying to do a pop-punk album with a classical influence. We'd say 'pop-punk,' and people would say, 'No, you're like burlesque-cabaret-punk,' or, 'It's baroque-pop,' and we were like, 'That sounds way cooler.'

~Brendon Urie

Topics: Album Classical Cooler First Influence Like People Say Sounds Trying Way Were Would You

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Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Albums Although Anybody Classical Classical Music Cover Expectation Going Landscape Listens Mountain Music Notes Painting Presented Say Sort Streams Tend Think

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Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Arithmetic Boxes Chess Child Classical Composition Cut Digital Get Little Music Musicians Orchestral Perhaps Possibilities Reason Roles Say Should Terms Up Worlds You

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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Avant-Garde Bend Classical Composers Like Mathematicians More Physicists Rules Traditional Willing

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Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Broke Classical Establishing Framework Mechanics Mold Necessarily Predictions Previous Quantum Quantum Mechanics Science

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