Affirmation Quote by Hermann Hesse

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 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 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

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision…

— Charles Rosen

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that…

— Lorin Maazel

Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about the message…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

— Gustav Holst

I believe that classical music comes through listening and practice, and it can be fun both for the singer or performer and the listener…

— Shankar Mahadevan

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone…

— Gael Garcia Bernal