Case Quote by M. Jayachandran

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

— Joanna Newsom

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

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

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

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

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

— Steve Hackett

I believe that classical music comes through listening and practice, and it can be fun both for the singer or performer and the listener…

— Shankar Mahadevan

There is a kind of adventure- and risk-seeking audience in classical contemporary music that is really empowering and part of what draws me to…

— Bryce Dessner

I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyone’s entertainment. It has been my hope that through live concerts, motion…

— Jose Iturbi

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

— Andre Rieu

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

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot