Adnan Sami Quotes

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

I don't use old music.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, and I think, 'It's going to be down to some sound guy's ideas.' Contact microphones on the violins. I'm a purist, I suppose.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground. The songs sound quite old, even if they're new. They sound like they've been sung by different people for years.

I feel like people are now praying for some authenticity and some human touch to music. There's no simpler outlet to that than guitar and piano.

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&B, and I love the radio smashes he's put out since then, but I go back to his older music for that R&B.

I was always into classical music and opera because I played the piano as I went through school and was very interested in Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals and stuff like that. That changed into heavy metal at around the age of 14 or 13, and I dropped the piano and started to play the guitar.

Hopefully the music of the future will not be all electronic. There is a place for it if it is used sparingly.

Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.

I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

The soundtrack for 'Mr. Fraud' is classical with a decent level of fusion.

I listen to old music, man.

There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.

I always play songs that are very based in folk music.

I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal.