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“It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'”

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Author:Jennifer Grant

“I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.”

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Author:Charles Bukowski

“I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.”

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Author:John Fahey

“I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.”

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Author:Josephine de La Baume

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk.”

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Author:Stuart Hamm

“I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.”

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Author:James Ellroy

“Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.'”

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Author:Leighton Ford

“I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening to a lot of classical music lately for some reason. I used to do that a lot when I was doing cabinet making in New England. I've sort of returned to that for some reason. That might be surprising to people.”

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Author:Hal Ketchum

“I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.”

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Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant

“Obviously there are pieces of classical music that are some of the most beautiful music ever written, for me anyway is a lot of classical or contemporary music, so it's a different kind of space that you enter when you're listening to it.”

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Author:Bryce Dessner

“With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.”

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Author:Paul Lansky

“I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.”

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Author:Elizabeth Jagger

“I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.”

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Author:Jillian Hervey

“I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find the knottier the jazz, the better. Anything with singing is a distraction. Listening to classical music tends to have the unconscious effect of making my writing too smooth.”

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Author:Paul Lynch

“I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my ears need a rest sometimes. I do enjoy listening to classical music.”

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Author:Chuck Panozzo

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

Source: Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

“At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.”

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Author:Satyajit Ray