Rufus Wainwright Quotes

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

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

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

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

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

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

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

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

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.

Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

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

Because of John Williams, I began collecting all kinds of film scores. I listened to them when I fell asleep, and it was through my obsessive listening that I learned what all the different parts of the orchestra were. I learnt a great deal from him by just simply listening.

I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello, this sound, and make it artistic so people can understand it today.

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.

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

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

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 came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

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

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such a magical, beautiful sound. I dedicated my entire childhood to cello, practising like crazy.