Rhiannon Giddens Quotes

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

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

I think musically.

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.

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

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

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.

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

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

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

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

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

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

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.