Grace Chatto Quotes

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

My kids will come to me and ask me to listen to a 'new sound' they think they've discovered. One time it was the Beatles' 'Yesterday,' and the new sound was four strings. All of a sudden the new generation discovers the string quartet!

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

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

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.

As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPod and downloaded every piece of classical music that I had access to onto that.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

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

There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.

I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.

Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.

We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.