Melvyn Bragg Quotes

I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.

I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.

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

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

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.

I like all kinds of music artists like Akon. I even listen to Lady Gaga.

Whenever my dad wasn't practicing, he was listening to music. He had an amazing jazz collection, and my mom had stuff like Chaka Khan to help balance it out.

I'm kind of a geek when it comes to talking about chord structures or melody, so I always loved in-depth conversations with musicians about things. I also enjoy when a fan can just put something on, and they really know nothing about music other than they like it and it touches them in some way.

I was interested in music since I was 14 years old. What really got me started was the first Led Zeppelin album... absolutely.

Musically, I just like when people are knowledgeable about music and they can talk to you about it.

Contextualize the music. I really hope to do more of that.

People take music too seriously.

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

I don't much listen to music as I study it: who's doing what, who wrote it.

My kids will come to me and ask me to listen to a 'new sound' they think they've discovered. One time it was the Beatles' 'Yesterday,' and the new sound was four strings. All of a sudden the new generation discovers the string quartet!

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.

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

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.