Jon Hopkins Quotes

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

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

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

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

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.

I'm really just a frustrated violinist.

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

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

My parents always wanted me to do music because they thought it was such a great extracurricular activity but we never thought it was going to be something that would be my career.

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

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

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

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

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.