Steve Hackett Quotes

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

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

I love listening to classical music.

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

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.

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

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

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

I listen mostly to classical music.

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

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.

Classical music can rock you!

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Any form of classical music is made for youth.

I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for some reason I come back to Elizabethan music because it's a little bit like the Beatles.

My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.

I love stuff like Mozart.

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.