Classic Quote by 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

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

— Kemp Muhl

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

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

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

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

— Benjamin Zander

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

— Frank Zappa

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

— Eberhard Weber

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

I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another…

— Ludovico Einaudi

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

— Charles Rosen