Author: Charles Hazlewood

Quotes

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

- Charles Hazlewood

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

- Charles Hazlewood

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

- Charles Hazlewood

Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe.

Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe.

- Charles Hazlewood

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

- Charles Hazlewood

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

- Charles Hazlewood

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

- Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

- Charles Hazlewood

I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.

I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.

- Charles Hazlewood

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