John Philip Sousa Quotes

Musically, I just like when people are knowledgeable about music and they can talk to you about it.

The States still has the best audiences by far.

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

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

Chennai audience is musically-inclined. They understand and enjoy different genres of music.

I like all kinds of music artists like Akon. I even listen to Lady Gaga.

There are two things that matter when you're making music. First, that you're doing what you love, even if it's crazy and other people tell you it's crazy. The second thing is the only people you really need to worry about are the people who love your music, not the people who speak badly about it.

It's really cool to see people show up at the shows night after night, and they're screaming the words of the song.

That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.

When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you're thrown onto a show where people are watching TV in their houses, and whether they ask for it or not, we're being played in front of them. There's a lot of negative feedback.

Whenever my dad wasn't practicing, he was listening to music. He had an amazing jazz collection, and my mom had stuff like Chaka Khan to help balance it out.

When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.

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

I wanted to talk about how stupid music is. I wanted to talk about how awesome music is, and how depressing it is, and why we all make music if it doesn't last forever.

I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang.

I'm kind of a geek when it comes to talking about chord structures or melody, so I always loved in-depth conversations with musicians about things. I also enjoy when a fan can just put something on, and they really know nothing about music other than they like it and it touches them in some way.

I'm a fan of good music, period.

I enjoy exploring music so much.

A lot of girls come to our shows, and a lot of them are freaking adorable and want to learn how to play guitar.

I believe that classical music comes through listening and practice, and it can be fun both for the singer or performer and the listener or audience, as long as the performer is taught to recognise the pulse of the audience.

Whenever I do my concerts, I try to do master classes or students.

Because of John Williams, I began collecting all kinds of film scores. I listened to them when I fell asleep, and it was through my obsessive listening that I learned what all the different parts of the orchestra were. I learnt a great deal from him by just simply listening.

I've always wanted to make some kind of music that was universally appreciated.

When you listen to music, you listen to music. You like it very much or not.

I like talking about my music.