Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
To sing is to pray twice.
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.
Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
I like to listen to classical music. . . I like mainline jazz.
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.
I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.
Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.
Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.
I love listening to classical music.
I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.
I love classical music; I love the way it's worked. . . all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.
I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music. You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.
