Centuries Quote by Stephen Hough

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

— Steve Hackett

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art…

— George Crumb

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

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

— Evan Parker

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

Music's designed to be timeless.

— Chamillionaire

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

— Charles Rosen

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

— Kin Hubbard

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

— Damon Albarn

The classical music world is so snobbish.

— Andre Rieu