Everyone Quote by Joseph Fiennes

It's interesting playing something that the audience doesn't fully know.

— Guy Pearce

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

— Bryce Dessner

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

— Gustavo Dudamel

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

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

— Joe Mantello

I understand that in people's eyes, classical music is kind of a lost and dying art, but in my eyes, it's like, "Oh, the…

— Owen Pallett

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

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

— Vivien Leigh

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 the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language,…

— Denis Johnson

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen