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Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")
I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.
I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They wanted to create a musical explosion, to blow the crowd away.
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.
As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.