Catharsis Quote by Lola Kirke

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of…

— Lola Kirke

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

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

— Steve Hackett

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.

— Jason Becker

I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

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 an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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

— Edgar Wilson Nye

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

— Kemp Muhl

I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young man, I…

— Chris Thile

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing…

— Klaus Schulze