Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
Western music is Bach, Handel and Schubert. It's good music, cleverly done. As a musician, I can see that.
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.
I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.
Handel, to him I bow the knee.
