Kiri Te Kanawa Quotes

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.

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

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.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

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

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

I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

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

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Classical music can rock you!

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).

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

I listen mostly to classical music.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

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.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

I always admired very much the virtuosity in Strauss because, really, he's a master of using the orchestra. And I like virtuosity, I must say, even if the taste of the music is not always mine.

I chose 'Time' by Hans Zimmer because it's very melodic, and the way it progresses throughout the track is very unique. I am personally a very big fan of piano melodies, and to me, 'Time' is just perfect.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.