Art Quote by Serj Tankian

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

— Theo Hutchcraft

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

— Aleksey Igudesman

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

— Charles Hazlewood

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

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of…

— Lesley Garrett

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state

— Frank Zappa

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

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

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

— Susanna Phillips

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

— Slash

Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than pop. I've…

— Matias Tellez

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