Michael Tilson Thomas Quotes

As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I like music, a lot of different types of music.

I love all kinds of music.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.

I've never loved listening to music.

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

I've always loved music, not necessarily just the Osmonds.

I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.

I like music a lot.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.