Michael Giacchino Quotes

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to.

I'm a music fan first and foremost. I can find the beauty in Jellyfish and U2 just as much as Opeth and Lamb of God, just as much as I can with Rush and Yes.

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

My mom and dad have two very different tastes in music, so they were playing everything from Prince to the Beatles to Aaliyah.

I'm doing this record called 'Epicloud.' Over the course of the full record, there's sort of new agey stuff, jazzy stuff, really heavy stuff. We basically cover the gamut.

People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.

I am a music freak. My tastes run the gamut from Willie Nelson to Metallica to Miles Davis.

I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.

I was really bored of making downtempo albums.

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.

As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.

I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.

I played in ska bands and like all kinds of music.

The only way I can make sense of my music is to compartmentalize it as opposed to having one band that I have to throw everything into. For me, it's just more fun and more challenging to create little worlds where a song or a piece can make sense.

The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.

The only advice I can give is to absorb as much as you can from as wide a spectrum as you can. If you're in a rock band and only soak up Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple kind of beginnings, then you're not going to have much leeway.

In any event, I'm proud to wear the badge of jazz vocalist if that's what people want to call me; but at the same time, there are many other things I like to do.