Elvis Costello Quotes

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

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that they could have maybe pursued a career in the concert music world, and perhaps been involved in a higher quality of music.

My education as a film composer, you can't not - if you like the orchestra like I do, if you are a symphonist like I am - you can't not listen to John Williams' work.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

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

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.

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.

I love doing concert music.

Classical music can rock you!

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

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).

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

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

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

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

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