Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'
I love listening to classical music.
I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces.
Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.
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.
Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.
Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.
Any form of classical music is made for youth.
I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
I love the early sonatas; I love the early Mozart, period. I'm really fond of that moment when he was either emulating Haydn or Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach or anybody but himself. The moment he found himself, as conventional wisdom would have it, at the age of 18 or 19 or 20, I stop being so interested in him.
I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.
I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and listen to Metallica or Adele, Radiohead, jazz, whatever it is that is completely opposite.
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.
