Skitch Henderson Quotes

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

I love stuff like Mozart.

My degree was in opera.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

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

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

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

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

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

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.

If Chance the Rapper was on tour in L.A., I would try and play with him. I love him.

I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic.

I'm an opera lover.

I'm really just a frustrated violinist.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.