Barbara Kingsolver
Related I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. MIKE FIGGIS MICHAEL GAMBON EDDIE VAN HALEN Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were d... MOSE ALLISON Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn'... RACHEL PLATTEN I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the thing... DAGMARA DOMINCZYK When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical... JAMIE CULLUM KIANA TOM KIP WINGER I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was y... EVAN PETERS But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, w... MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynam... GARY BURTON Classical ballet is very extreme. You're doing it six days a week, and it's a kind of obsess... DARCEY BUSSELL FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA CAROLINE SHAW It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of w... CARLY PATTERSON I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang ... RACHEL PLATTEN JASON MORAN EDDIE VAN HALEN NINA SIMONE My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation... SHULER HENSLEY There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar... ANDY SUMMERS FRANCES MCDORMAND Last year was a very big year for classical music on the digital music sector. CHAS JENKINS A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and... LAILA ROBINS He was a strange character, to say the least. He was a genius on the piano. Anything you would ask h... IRMA THOMAS People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the... KEVIN DURANT And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation o... MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the... RAVI SHANKAR AMOR TOWLES LINDSEY STIRLING I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano te... AUDRA MCDONALD BRIAN ENO RIVERS CUOMO Last year was a big year for classical music going digital. CHAS JENKINS There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical the... EDWARD WITTEN MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that a... DANNY ELFMAN As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, bu... JAN VOGLER That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can ge... ANNE-MARIE DUFF DOC SEVERINSEN Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was pres... ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN BUDDY RICH HOWARD SHORE I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a ... JAMIE FOXX I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons... JOHN GOKONGWEI You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPo... GRAEME BASE First, because it's unusual. It is a beautiful piece of music, also a piece that, for people who are... BEATRIZ ILARI I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wan... JOHN TESH I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my ... CARMELO ANTHONY MICHAEL GAMBON I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When... RAFAEL VINOLY NICOLAS CAGE You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doi... PHIL EVERLY KATHERINE JENKINS KATHERINE JENKINS GORE VIDAL Can any of the classical digital guys compete with Kodak in understanding how to make ink and how to... ANTONIO PEREZ I thought it would be kind of fun to open our next season on a very strong, classical note, BARTLETT SHER I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotlan... SAM HEUGHAN ROBERT PATTINSON SKEET ULRICH 'The Voice' gave me the exposure that YouTube was never able to provide for me, just because... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE DARREN ARONOFSKY CRAIG GROESCHEL I think 'Classical Crossover' is the perfect category for what we do. We're a string quartet with pe... MARK SUMMER I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music. BILLY SHEEHAN When I was six years old, a children's agent moved in next door to us, sent me out on a commerci... EVE PLUMB I've paid my dues in the classical trenches. LAILA ROBINS I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got expose... HERBIE HANCOCK I'd like to play something classical. I'm in the Strindberg society, and we do readings of S... TERI GARR MICHAEL GAMBON I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera si... RENEE FLEMING Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, ... DAVE BRUBECK (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. ... CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN BILL BRYSON DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE ALAN DEAN FOSTER NINA SIMONE GLORIA ESTEFAN Now, when I play soul piano, for instance, and I play a rendition of 'Spain,' I do it decons... CHICK COREA In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's developme... MIKE FIGGIS I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background. ADAM JONES ADAM DRIVER All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that yo... PAUL GREENGRASS My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I... ANTONIA THOMAS ROB THOMAS Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and tha... NICK SWARDSON 'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really bi... MISTY COPELAND ANNETTE BENING I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Em... NOLAN NORTH AMY LEE DOC SEVERINSEN MARTIN SHORT You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He come... VING RHAMES BENNY GREEN CHARLES HAZLEWOOD A. R. RAHMAN GARY OLDMAN
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I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand. 
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Hol... 
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. 
I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got... 
'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of... 
I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music. 
I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That'... 
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Hol... 
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and ... 
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a... 
When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a c... 
Europe in general is a great place for me, but specifically Germany has been very good to me. German... 
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically... 
I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon... 
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreograph... 
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the c... 
They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there'... 
'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s. 
You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. 
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my... 
Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn... 
I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have... 
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upo... 
I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw... 
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get tha... 
Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much ... 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to ... 
In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on c... 
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at leas... 
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b... 
My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pi... 
The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play ca... 
Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: wr... 
To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theate... 
I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classi... 
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me -... 
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music ... 
I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover ver... 
I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture o... 
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. 
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g... 
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. 
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...