Ability Quote by Itzhak Perlman

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

— Agnes Obel

I'm not a classical player. I don't want to be a classical player. I love to improvise, because things happen that never happen anywhere…

— John McLaughlin

My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster…

— Allan Holdsworth

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

— Edgar Wilson Nye

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to…

— John Cale

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think…

— Gregor Schwellenbach

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

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their…

— Dave Brubeck

Usually people like experimental music which is usually not the case in Carnatic classical concerts.

— M. Jayachandran

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

— Kin Hubbard

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

— Ludovico Einaudi