Louis Prima Quotes

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

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

I don't see music as working.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

I think music all the time.

I love music so much; I've always played.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

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 just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.

I like all kinds of music artists like Akon. I even listen to Lady Gaga.

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.

At school, I wrote in the style of the Dutch composers. After I graduated, a new style set in.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

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.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

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.