Aleksey Igudesman Quotes

I love listening to classical music.

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

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

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

Classical music can rock you!

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

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.

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

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

I always admired very much the virtuosity in Strauss because, really, he's a master of using the orchestra. And I like virtuosity, I must say, even if the taste of the music is not always mine.

I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

I'm just inspired by music.

I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

My favorite thing to do is make music. It's what I spend most of my free time doing.