Amount Quote by Questlove

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.

— Jason Becker

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a…

— Benjamin Carson

I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

I was born out of classical music.

— Mika

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

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for me to…

— Jon Hopkins

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that…

— Nina Simone

I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its…

— GRiZ

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to…

— Leon Russell

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

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 only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a…

— Ian Anderson