Alan Menken Quotes

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

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.

Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular.

I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.

As a writer, I've always been the sum total of my influences, and those are all over the spectrum: Rachmaninov, the Who, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Lesley Gore, Burt Bacharach and Leonard Bernstein, the Rolling Stones and the Small Faces.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

I love OneRepublic, The Script, All Time Low. I love pretty much every genre. I love the Rolling Stones and Elvis.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

I love listening to classical music.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.