Chance Quote by Gustavo Dudamel

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

— Benjamin Zander

Personally, I cain't stand classical stuff, but I don't tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain't these…

— Hank Williams

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music…

— Randall Jarrell

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

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

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

In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great…

— Max Richter

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's…

— Gustavo Dudamel

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

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

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

— Aleksey Igudesman