Classical Quote by Gustav Holst

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

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

Classical dance is a growing and ever-evolving art.

— Shobana

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

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

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

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

— Kin Hubbard

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's…

— Andrew Bird

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight…

— Hermann Hesse

Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.

— Kin Hubbard

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

— Susanna Phillips