I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
My mom was an opera singer. She did all the classical music, and I heard it. I know every opera. I know… — Bakermat Copy Share Image
And whether or not you're interested in opera or classical music or folk music or the theatre, I think that for a… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
It depends on my mood but classical music is what I am drawn towards. I also listen to Sufi music and bhajans… — Neeti Mohan Copy Share Image
I grew up partially with classical music but listened to a lot of rock when I was young - I like acoustic,… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little… — Anna Mouglalis Copy Share Image
Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening… — Hal Ketchum Copy Share Image
I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
In Western classical music the idea of holiness, purity, perfection, and total beauty is expressed through clarity of sound - a bell-like… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
When I was 9, I got guitar lessons in my school, just classical guitar. I didn't really like it much. Nowadays, I… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect… — Jon Lord Copy Share Image
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons.… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
Indian classical music is charming and currently there are a wide range of musicians who bring great classical tunes to the Bollywood… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
I will probably be remembered as someone who bastardized classical music, but apart from that I like to be someone who injected… — Vanessa Mae Copy Share Image
“We are the conductors of the beauty of the orchestra of our inner lives. Keep a Händel on it and don't hold… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music. — Ralf Hutter Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about 'Bhav' is that it reaches out to a far more number than just the typical set of people… — Shobana Copy Share Image
Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different… — Eric Carr Copy Share Image
Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Before I got the desired effect in my voice, I trained in classical music under my father for several years. — Himesh Reshammiya Copy Share Image
There is nothing else is India which is as popular as Bollywood. Look at Indian classical music, how big and how respected… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
I started playing music when I was about six and didn't discover Indian classical music until I was fifteen. So, essentially, I… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird… — Planningtorock Copy Share Image
I would love to hone my skills and learn Indian classical music. It's a vast sea of melodies and ragas, and I… — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would listen to anything that had a live orchestra or ensemble playing, so that covered everything from show… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
Being a classical musician, you can go to school for it; you can go get a degree. Even as a composer, there… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
