Sue Townsend Quotes

We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.

Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.

I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

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.

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

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

I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

I love symphonies. I love string sections.

I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.

I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal.

I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.

[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.

I come from a classical background.