Katherine Jenkins Quotes

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.

I don't want just 25-year-old girls watching my show. I want Grandma, Grandpa and Mom and Dad and the kids. I just want everyone to hear good music.

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

Classical music can rock you!

I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned because I listen to everything.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like the fact that opera is seen as elitist and all black ties and that stuff.

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.'

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.

If you loved music, Lemmy was your friend, regardless of who you were or where you came from.

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

Me personally, I think all the barriers that are put up between genres are so easily broken. People just love music that moves them.

People from all walks of life that you might find as a King Diamond fan - you don't look a certain way; you don't have to say certain things. It can be anyone.

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.