Jascha Heifetz Quotes

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.

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

I like music, a lot of different types of music.

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.

As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

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

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.

I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle.

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

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

I'm a fan of good music, period.

I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello, this sound, and make it artistic so people can understand it today.

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.