Age Quote by Robert Kagan

I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.

— Andre Rieu

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area…

— Kiri Te Kanawa

I dig Strauss and Wagner. Those cats are good.

— Jimi Hendrix

The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic…

— David Finckel

I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

— Mel Brooks

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

— Catherine Deneuve

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks…

— Katy Mixon

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

— Ivor Novello

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

— William Kristol

When people ask me about being Swedish, or if there is something I feel connected to, neoclassicism is the thing I bring up.

— Jonny Johansson

What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually…

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles…

— Eduard Hanslick