Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music—they don’t read between the lines, they just read the lines.
Ravi Shankar
I think there are people who use classical music to say, ‘I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don’t.’ You’re not allowed to have fun or entertain.
André Rieu
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means to write one note.
Georges Bizet
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.
Erik Satie
If music is a place, then jazz is the city, folk is the wilderness, rock is the road, classical is a temple.
Vera Nazarian
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski
If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
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
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
Michael Torke
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(This story appears in the 03 October, 2014 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)