Kip Winger Quotes

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

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.

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.

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

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

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).

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 love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

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

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

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

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

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

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

I was never into smart college boy music.

I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular.

As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock stars: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan.