Centre Quote by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Western music is Bach, Handel and Schubert. It's good music, cleverly done. As a musician, I can see that.

— Fela Kuti

My singing is not Hindustani classical or too western. It is a balance of Indian and western music. That's the kind of music I…

— Amaal Mallik

I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.

— Travis Scott

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent…

— Brian Eno

The Western music tradition is mostly addressed to a public that has a critical mind, and judges the quality of the writing, of the…

— Gaspar Claus

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down…

— Robbie Robertson

My dad is into western classical and mother is an Indian classical singer.

— Tanishk Bagchi

Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I love Western classical music - I grew up on that thanks to my parents who loved it too.

— Shobana

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

Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling.

— Ludwig Goransson

I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

— Ilaiyaraaja