Classical music Quote by Ilaiyaraaja

Western music is Bach, Handel and Schubert. It's good music, cleverly done. As a musician, I can see that.

— Fela Kuti

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

— Steve Hackett

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

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

— A. R. Rahman

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

— Satyajit Ray

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

— Susanna Phillips

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

— Colin Wilson

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

— Leila Josefowicz

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another…

— Ludovico Einaudi

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