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Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.


Charles Hazlewood

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[As for her being a] Maiden Aunt, ... striking ability to charm the opposite sex.
EUDORA WELTY Nobody wants to talk to an offensive lineman really.
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COLSON WHITEHEAD I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
FELICITY JONES A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has.
UNKNOWN Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when ...
JACKIE ROBINSON Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music loude...
DAN AUERBACH Francois is to classical music what Michael Jordan was to basketball. Nobody else does what he does....
HANS STURM I like people to see that classical music is not stuffy. It's something for any generation.
MASAKAZU ITO I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.
DAVID SUCHET Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
JOAN ARMATRADING How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Nobody wants to get hit by that. No man, no woman, nobody wants that.
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit w...
JACKIE ROBINSON That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
ITZHAK PERLMAN There is a lot of really creative music taking its departure point from chamber music or classical m...
BRYCE DESSNER You spent a bundle. Nobody wants to look like a fashion victim.
VALERIE STEELE You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPo...
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I am not commanding you, but I ...
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
JOAN ARMATRADING Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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HERBIE HANCOCK I listen mostly to classical music.
ALEXANDRA FULLER Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
LEILA JOSEFOWICZ When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, ...
TOM GLAZER I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at th...
NINA SIMONE A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
MARK TWAIN A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and ro...
PATTI LUPONE In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's developme...
MIKE FIGGIS To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE Adrenaline wants to kill you...
DEYTH BANGER Our curriculum has become much more cafeteria-like. In classical times, education was regarded as ge...
MARSHA WATSON Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep...
MALCOLM ARNOLD Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not...
TAYLOR HACKFORD Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very...
BENNY GREEN What separates her is that she wants to set a legacy at Pope John. She wants to do things that nobod...
BRIAN CORCORAN Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of ...
YO-YO MA It were amazing. That day it was like, 'Sky News wants to talk to you'.
ALEX TURNER Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been inf...
YO-YO MA It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chanc...
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL He's the type of guy that has to talk to God because nobody else will listen to him
RICK REYNOLDS We stopped doing the 'elevator music' thing almost three decades ago. We still have a program that h...
KAREN VIGELAND My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
AVICII Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful cr...
SARA SHERIDAN The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre ...
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A WALK TO REMEMBER I listen to a lot less classical music today than I used to,
BENJAMIN LEVY Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music ...
BENNY GREEN If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien...
CRAIG GROESCHEL But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, w...
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music......
ERIC CARR This has suddenly become the thing that everybody wants.
THOMAS KELLER Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
JAN GARBAREK He asked me if we could please sit down and talk to each other, Nobody more than I wants this to be ...
LISANNE ALTMANN Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
GOETHE God wants to create something new on this earth; something that nobody has ever known or seen until ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that
reason alone keeps people from al...
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HAL MCRAE I don't even think that you can call Iron Maiden 100% real metal. Iron Maiden is beyond that and alw...
BRUCE DICKINSON Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die.
JOE E. LOUIS Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.
ANDREW COHEN Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.
GOETHE Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die.
JOE LOUIS I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, ...
STEVE WINWOOD That's something I don't want to hear, that nobody wants to hear. Who wants to be just a good home t...
ALEX GUERRERO Everybody has a full deck of cards, but nobody wants to show their cards at the same time.
CLAY BARTLETT Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
UNKNOWN Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die.
ANONYMOUS Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
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CHARLES DARWIN ...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o...
CHARLES LAMB The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
CHARLES ELIOT You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
CHARLES BUXTON Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, wor...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each ot...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, u...
CHARLES BURNEY She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
CHARLES LAMB Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say gra...
CHARLES LAMB These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide...
CHARLES LAMB We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB