John Adams Quotes

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

I love Puccini and that oriental influence in his music.

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

A lot of people hated every moment of my 'Ring.' And a lot of people who had never been to an opera bought subscriptions to the next season.

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.

Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen to a lot of classical music.

I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.

I've never felt opera was a party I've been invited to, and maybe I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it.

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.