Activity Quote by Julian Johnson

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and…

— Lara St. John

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

— Joseph Addison

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy…

— Alan Bishop

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

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

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

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

Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium…

— Susan McClary

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all…

— Yuja Wang