Addresses Quote by Michael Tilson Thomas

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

— Steve Hackett

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

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

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

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

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

— Benjamin Zander

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical is not…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

— Susanna Phillips

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of…

— Serj Tankian

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

— Theo Hutchcraft

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