Bunch Quote by Frank Zappa

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

— Steve Hackett

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

— Charles Rosen

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a personal diary.…

— Marisha Pessl

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

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

— Kemp Muhl

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

— Leila Josefowicz

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

— Charles Hazlewood

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