Tod Machover Quotes

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

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've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

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.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

I listen mostly to classical music.

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

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

When I was 11 years old, I wanted to sing Tosca.

Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.

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

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.

Let's be clear: I love singing at the Met.

Classical music can rock you!

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

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

I don't listen to much modern composition.

I love to conduct opera.

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