Back Quote by Ron Mael

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each…

— Miles Davis

I used to love Bach.

— Josh Silver

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

— Eleanor Bron

I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up…

— Tiny Tim

I've played a bunch of different versions of Walter [from "Fringe"]... I loved it when he was being random, which was probably the original…

— John Noble

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

— S. J. Perelman

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian…

— Aaron Copland

“You're the kind of child who might develop a passion for Bach." I told him I hadn't at school. The one Bach piece I…

— Dodie Smith

Ray grew up in Chicago so he had the blues, Muddy Waters and all that. He also had classical training. That was pretty cool.…

— John Densmore

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

— Dodie Smith

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

— Franz Liszt