Classical music Quote by Mikis Theodorakis

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

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

The classical music world is so snobbish.

— Andre Rieu

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

In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great…

— Max Richter

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision…

— Charles Rosen

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

— Leila Josefowicz

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

— Simon Rattle

It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing…

— Howard Jacobson

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

— Krzysztof Penderecki