Ian Anderson Quotes

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.

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

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

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.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

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

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.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

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.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

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.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

There's a lot of music in my life, and I found it a very important part of my life.

I love music, and I got an ear for it.

I started playing music when I was about six and didn't discover Indian classical music until I was fifteen. So, essentially, I had a lot of catching up to do.