Classical music Quote by Michael Tilson Thomas

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

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

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

— Steve Hackett

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 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 has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

— Leila Josefowicz

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

— Kemp Muhl

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

— Gustav Holst

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

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

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone…

— Gael Garcia Bernal