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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

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

— Tori Amos

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

— Katherine Jenkins

I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not…

— Charles Hazlewood

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

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

— Slash

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

— Jonny Greenwood

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we…

— Katherine Jenkins

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

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to…

— Leon Russell