Eric Whitacre Quotes

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up.

My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.

Music is only good sometimes.

Music's designed to be timeless.

Music is music and there are only two types: good and bad.

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.

I grew up in a family that was very musical, learned the blues and everything like that. And I became a little bit frustrated with the simplicity of rock n' roll and blues. I started listening to a lot of classical music - mainly Bach, Vivaldi.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.