Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
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Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.
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.
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.
New music is absolutely integral to classical music.