Classical music Quote by Lara St. John

Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and…

— Julian Johnson

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

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

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 one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

— Charles Hazlewood

Obviously there are pieces of classical music that are some of the most beautiful music ever written, for me anyway is a lot of…

— Bryce Dessner

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

— Charles Hazlewood

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

— Gustav Holst

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

— Leila Josefowicz

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

— Steve Hackett

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

— Joan Armatrading