Matt Groening Quotes

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that.

My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

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

I like when pop is still good music; that's what I like.

I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century 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.

I love listening to things like those wonderful piano pieces of Stockhausen. It's just not my thing as a composer or performer, and thank goodness we're not obliged to be Modernist any more.

Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.

I've always listened to Top 40 music.

We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about.

I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.