Andre Rieu Music Quotes

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you. ~ Andre Rieu

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played. ~ Andre Rieu

I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt. ~ Andre Rieu

When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience. ~ Andre Rieu

I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time. ~ Andre Rieu

When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden. ~ Andre Rieu

For me, I always like to get up bright and early. ~ Andre Rieu

I'm an un-healable positive optimist. ~ Andre Rieu

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come. ~ Andre Rieu

When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that. ~ Andre Rieu

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy. ~ Andre Rieu

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. ~ Andre Rieu

Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love. ~ Andre Rieu

Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together. ~ Andre Rieu

I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life. ~ Andre Rieu

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual. ~ Andre Rieu

They're a different generation, those kids; kids that are under the age of twelve. They're not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They're like, it's cool and everything, but whatever. They're just as impressed by YouTube. ~ Frank Black

Now, the Chinese people are outraged and they are sending clear signals to Beijing: "do not succumb to the West." "If you do, our nation will suffer immensely, and the rest of the world will turn to ashes." ~ Andre Vltchek

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic. ~ Brittany Murphy

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool. ~ Yael Naim

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems. ~ Michael Haneke

Not everyone's cut out to have one," she said. She wished for a moment that she had the words to explain it properly: how loving someone more than you loved yourself gave you strength and courage; how seeing yourself in your parabatai's eyes meant seeing the best version of yourself; how, at its best, fighting alongside your parabatai was like playing instruments in harmony with one another, each piece of the music improving the other. ~ Cassandra Clare

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen. ~ Enya

I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it. ~ John Lennon

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing. ~ Eddie Van Halen

I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira). ~ Elvis Costello

Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Let the good times roll!) ~ Rachel Harris

He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld. ~ Colum McCann

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit. ~ Paul Westerberg

You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan. ~ Simon Cheshire

I love music. I love going out dancing. ~ Carson Kressley