I had spent many years pursuing excellence because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom and that was far more important.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

When I was a young musician the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education and is not made a fool by it may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

My folks have played everything from rock disco pop funk and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz classical and Latin. With all this in my pocket I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age so he must have been a music lover.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down wrote this song and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.