Excitement Quote by Andris Nelsons

Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch of lightness,…

— Alexandre Desplat

I think, you know, for someone who does play, let's say, old music or, you know, Baroque music or Renaissance music - and you…

— Mahan Esfahani

Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument. When you think…

— Hilary Hahn

...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first…

— Fred Frith

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got…

— Aleksey Igudesman

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play…

— Glenn Gould

I find that Bach is appealing to a lot of different audiences. It really hits people at their core in different ways, but it…

— Hilary Hahn

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all…

— Yuja Wang

What makes games so exciting is that's a whole other- there's all sorts of other considerations on what music is supposed to achieve and…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from…

— Rachel Miner

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood