Classical music Quote by Andrew Bird

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it…

— Rufus Wainwright

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

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the…

— Glenn Danzig

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

— David Garrett

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

— Harrison Birtwistle

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

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

— Aleksey Igudesman

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which…

— David Finckel

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

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

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

— Michael Tilson Thomas