Classical music Quote by Paul Lansky

Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At…

— Paul Lansky

I love learning how people hear my music because everyone has different references.

— Borns

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

— John Edensor Littlewood

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it…

— Ali Smith

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

During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening and -…

— Doug Stanton

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I try and construct the music in a way that stuff that doesn't make sense on the first listen will make sense on like…

— Alex G

When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically…

— Helene Grimaud

I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing it and…

— Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

— Elton John