Quotes About Music

My son is a hip-hop producer.

My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.

As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.

My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.

The first dramatic experience I had of music was when I was five. The electricity had gone out in Georgia, and my mum played the 'Moonlight Sonata' on the piano.

I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.

I think, bad times, I sit down and I play - there's definitely certain songs that touch in certain ways. I go back to 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven; that usually takes care of everything.

I first started listening to Sondheim's work when I was a kid.

I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.

Sondheim is New York.

I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.

Musically, I'm a huge fan of Stephen Sondheim, and I love, love 'Sweeney Todd.'

We got to see Sondheim shows, 'Phantom of the Opera,' 'Cats' and all sorts of stuff. When you're 10 or 11 years old, it's just magnificent. The story-telling, the music - it lifts you out of your seat.

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

The music for 'The Last Five Years' is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest.

There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'

Even though we try not to be nostalgic about drawing from old music, I'm always inspired by things like old Cole Porter songs or the words in the Gershwin songs or even Stephen Sondheim, where there's a real craft to them but it isn't only that you're hearing the words it's that it links so well with the music.

A good song never gets old.

I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

In karaoke, you don't choose the song; the song chooses you.

My favourite piece of music is actually 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' as a whole. For me, it's the most perfect and brilliant example of rock song writing.