Roger Waters | My Music: ‘Music is one of the purest forms of human communication. It transcends creed, colour, the lot’
Co-founder of Pink Floyd, the guitarist, singer and composer Roger Waters on classical music in his...
Jon Snow | My Music: ‘In moments of relative despair you will find people playing music – in Syria, in Iraq, in all sorts of places’
The journalist and presenter of Channel 4 News since 1989 reveals how his love of music was...
Juliet Stevenson | My Music: ‘I’m interested in the classical canon, but only if it relates to now’
The actor on the links between music and the spoken word, and how knowing about the lives of...
Carole Boyd | My Music: ‘Recording Façade was absolutely terrifying’
The actress and star of BBC Radio 4’s The Archers on how words and music relate – not least in...
Alice Cooper | My Music: ‘There have always been strong operatic elements in my songs’
The rock singer on discovering rock‘n’roll and how classical music has influenced his own work
Cornelia Funke | My Music: ‘Music is the most perfect time machine’
The children’s author on the relationship between music and her writing
Sarah Perry | My Music: ‘Classical music represents a stability and constancy that is always there’
The novelist on the power of Bach to free one’s imagination and give comfort in difficult times
John Simpson | My Music: ‘I feel I kind of invented the Walkman, before it was actually invented!’
The BBC’s World Affairs Editor on the powerful place of music at difficult times
John Sessions | My Music: ‘Beethoven is like Joyce – he takes the detritus of life and turns it into diamonds’
In an interview which originally appeared in the July 2004 issue of Gramophone, the late actor and...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | My Music: ‘Someone had the bright idea to drop a curtain between those auditioning and the panel, and things changed overnight’
Only the second woman to be appointed to the US Supreme Court, the liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader...
Derek Walcott | My Music: ‘Even if my knowledge is limited, in terms of appreciation, Mozart swings!’
The Nobel Prize-winning poet on opera writing, music and Caribbean speech melodies
Alexandre Desplat | My Music: ‘At their best, film scores are real music, not background wallpaper, and can work equally well in a concert hall’
Alexandre Desplat on finding the balance between fiction and function
Sir Ralph Kohn | My Music: ‘Bach is the most spiritually divine composer who ever lived’
A pioneering career in the pharmaceutical industry has always gone hand-in-hand with performing as a...
Kamasi Washington | My Music: ‘All music is connected in some way – like the way all people are connected, even if you don’t really acknowledge it’
The saxophonist, composer and bandleader on the links between jazz and classical music, and how he...
Victoria Wood | My Music: ‘I think it’s a big problem if the only people who have access to music lessons are middle-class’
The comedian and playwright on the need for music education and her love of choirs
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