Concertos Quotes

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

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 did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces.

The 'Rhapsody' has a lean, modern, American feel about it, whereas with Rachmaninoff's second and third concertos, you feel very much you're still in old imperial Russia.

Any form of classical music is made for youth.

The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.

In concertos, I stand up, and I conduct with the bow when I'm not playing. During symphonies, I sit, but sometimes I stop playing to conduct. Being seated in a section allows me to feel more like we're playing chamber music, which is how I like to approach it.

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

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

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

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

The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.