Allowed Quote by Andre Rieu

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

— Agnes Obel

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

— Gustavo Dudamel

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

— Edgar Wilson Nye

I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you really want…

— Charlie Albright

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it…

— Yo-Yo Ma

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today,…

— Van Cliburn

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

— David Garrett

A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that…

— Jamie Foxx

Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it.…

— Andre Rieu

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

— Jonny Greenwood

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

— Allan Bloom

You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by…

— Katherine Jenkins