Andre Rieu Quotes

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

Art is for everybody.

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

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.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Music has no limits, borders or ages.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.

Pop art is for everyone.

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.