Robert Sapolsky Quotes

You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early.

I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.

Only after coming to Chennai did I come to know that I know nothing about music. People in Chennai are so talented in Carnatic, ghazals, etc. They can play Piano, etc so well.

I don't think you can have a calculated approach towards learning music.

Music was something that nobody in my family does.

I think it's really hard to describe music without alienating somebody.

Before I got the desired effect in my voice, I trained in classical music under my father for several years.

All me and my brother knew was sports - music was never something I ever really thought of.

I've been doing music in some form since I was seven years old.

My sisters and my brother were all very much into music. A couple of them were dancers.

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

My parents are musicians. I was listening to the radio and recording songs off the radio on cassette tapes and playing guitars and pianos. Just emotionally responding to music from a very young age.

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.

Western music is Bach, Handel and Schubert. It's good music, cleverly done. As a musician, I can see that.

Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, sang out loud, or listened to the radio with frequency. The record collection in the living room was only about 2 feet long - and that included 4 solid inches of Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert.

I started at the piano at the age of 4.

Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

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.

No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound waves to pen and paper in one perfect gesture of inspiration.