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

— Aleksey Igudesman

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

— Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

— Alan Price

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

— Kin Hubbard

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

When I listen to symphonies, or long pieces of music, there are so many different moods and movements, and things that are really beautiful…

— John Petrucci

There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.

— Matt Bellamy

There is so much restlessness and chaos in the society, and that's what music depicts.

— Liz Mitchell

Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your actions.

— Ardeth Kapp

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight…

— Hermann Hesse