Books Quote by Krzysztof Penderecki

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

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

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

— Armando Iannucci

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music…

— Randall Jarrell

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

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

— Kiesza

I love listening to classical music.

— Katharine McPhee

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

— Benjamin Zander

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

— Simon Rattle

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

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 listen mostly to classical music.

— Alexandra Fuller