Johnny Flynn Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical music like every day.

We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

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'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

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

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.

As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.