Charles Bukowski Quotes

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers.

I love Shostakovich. We were good friends.

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

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.

I love listening to classical music.

I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

I love stuff like Mozart.

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming.

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.

I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.