Anoushka Shankar Quotes

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

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

There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

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 love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life.

My training has been in Hindustani classical, and I have done a six-week course in English vocals at Berklee. The holistic learning has helped me a lot.

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

My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.

I started playing music when I was about six and didn't discover Indian classical music until I was fifteen. So, essentially, I had a lot of catching up to do.

My kids will come to me and ask me to listen to a 'new sound' they think they've discovered. One time it was the Beatles' 'Yesterday,' and the new sound was four strings. All of a sudden the new generation discovers the string quartet!

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.

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

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

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.

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

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.