Melvyn Bragg Quotes

I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

I love listening to classical music.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

The artistic world is one of high nuance.

You can't get down and dirty at the opera.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.