Enjoy Quote by I. M. Pei

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing…

— Antonio Damasio

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not…

— Kiri Te Kanawa

I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly…

— A. R. Rahman

I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly…

— A. R. Rahman

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

— John Edensor Littlewood

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven,…

— Charles Mingus

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also…

— Colm Toibin

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind…

— Jascha Heifetz

Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop,…

— Andris Nelsons

I listen mostly to classical music.

— Alexandra Fuller

I love listening to things like those wonderful piano pieces of Stockhausen. It's just not my thing as a composer or performer, and thank…

— Stephen Hough

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to…

— Patti LuPone