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For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another…

— Ludovico Einaudi

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 gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people…

— Dave Barry

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

The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit…

— Frank Zappa

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read…

— Gordon Getty

Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical…

— George Gershwin

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the…

— Aaron Zigman

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

— Steve Hackett

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which…

— David Finckel

“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a personal diary.…

— Marisha Pessl