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Musicians across genres credit classical composers with shaping their craft, a theme explored further in our Classical quotes collection.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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Nov 07, 2020

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma

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Nov 07, 2020

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

Quotes by Warren Zevon

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Nov 07, 2020

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

Quotes by Mose Allison

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Nov 07, 2020

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.

Quotes by Matt Schulze

Composers
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Nov 07, 2020

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Brian Greene

From piano works studied for technique to composers who broke violin strings mid-performance, this page pairs well with our Composers quotes.

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