Steven Stucky Quotes

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

We've had real strong aboriginal male artists who've crossed over to the mainstream who have toured the U.K., who have been a massive influence on myself and many, many communities around Australia.

Pop music doesn't challenge anything.

People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st century, of course.

I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello, this sound, and make it artistic so people can understand it today.

I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.

It's an honour to have been invited to perform in India for 'Vh1 Hip Hop Hustle.' This only reconfirms the impact Hip Hop culture and music has made globally.

Our sons are the next generation who are more clued into the new trends of music. So if I want to understand the vibe of the new generation, and if I want to stay relevant with time, they are my source of learning.

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical music like every day.

I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk.

I'm grateful that as part of the Ernie Ball family, I'm able to connect with my fans in such a meaningful way and hopefully inspire guitar players to up their game!

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

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

Why English music is being taught in some schools? The government should make arrangements to promote Indian classical music among students.

We want to make music, and we won't become jaded by the business aspect of what we do.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

I think music is supposed to be shared.

I learned Neil Young songs, Bob Dylan songs and older songs. It wasn't until I moved to Philly that I had aspirations to maybe forming a band.

From a small child to right now - I mean, when I was five years old, Red Norville, Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus, Les Paul, Mary Ford, people like that were coming over to my house. So I was around professional adult mature musicians who had had big careers.

I think the States is a huge part of the music industry worldwide. There are so many other artists and music industry people here, so I think to be working my audience here is definitely a go.

I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.