A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
Driss: [after listening to classical music] We listened to your classics. Now it's time to listen to mine. [plays Earth Wind & Fire]
You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPod and downloaded every piece of classical music that I had access to onto that.
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.
New music is absolutely integral to classical music.
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
Classical music can rock you!
I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
I love listening to classical music.
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.
I was born out of classical music.
I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
