David Newman Quotes

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

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

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

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

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

Any form of classical music is made for youth.

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

I love listening to classical music.

Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it.

I love doing concert music.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas.

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

A symphony is no joke.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.