Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.
Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.
I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.
I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.
I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
Autumn is a classical music; when it begins, the gravity disappears!
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.
I listen mostly to classical music.
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
