Dmitry Medvedev Quotes

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

My basic grammar is in Indian classical music, Carnatic music, and Hindustani music, but I don't believe that that is the only form of music I will learn. I don't believe in that, because I am a very open minded person.

Some people dig jazz, some people dig classical music, some people dig rock. Everyone is so concerned about who they like. They always say, 'This guy is the best,' 'No, this guy is the best.' But I think everyone is great. I really don't have barriers to any type of music. I could listen to everything from metal to classical music to anything else.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys.

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.