#classical music

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head. ↗

— John Fahey

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Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

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You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

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I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

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We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much. ↗

— Benny Green

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That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

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Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

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It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

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We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

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