Gary Lucas Quotes

Classical music can rock you!

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I love stuff like Mozart.

I listen mostly to classical music.

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.

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

I love listening to classical music.

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.