Ray Bradbury Quotes

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

I studied with Felix Blumenfeld, who had studied piano with Anton Rubinstein and composition with Tchaikovsky. Felix, my professor, was the right hand of Anton Rubinstein. Blumenfeld knew his playing by heart, from every angle.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

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.

Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years.

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea; I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

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 love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

I was born out of classical music.

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.