Why do grown-ups like classical music?

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I know lots of adults that are really into modern music. My Dad actively dislikes classical, and my Mum likes it but isn't overly fanatical. But I'm 16 and hardly ever listen to anything but classical - in fact the only modern music I tend to like is in classical style, or slushy ballads lol!

Ya know, I haven't answered this post yet because I felt like it was beneath me...

However....

What in the world makes you think that the appreciation for classical music is limited to adults? I have loved listening to Bach, Beethoven, etc, ever since I was a child. The fact that my dad's a classical musician may have been a factor in this, but even so, I think that, with proper exposure, chidlren can easily appreciate decent, intelligent genres (not only in music but also in the other arts). My kids all like classical, along with the rest of what we listen to.

probably the same reason I could love anything as repetative or nontraditional as jungle, trance, or techno. People have different ways of sizing up sounds, different ways of feeling it, different environments they associate these things with - for me my parents raised me on classical and back when I was 6 or 7 I LOVED it to the exclusion of most other stuff. Even now, if I hear something good and properly moody, I can still give it a nod of respect. Take it as one of those base-models as well that inspired a lot of other styles of music and also realize that some of those great composers of classical, if they had synthesizers, drums, guitars, or samplers, would have made some SICK rock, industrial, hip-hop, jungle, techno, trance, or whatever, just that those weren't the sounds or tools of their times so they did the best with what they have. You with?

When i was young, i was very shy to admit i loved classical cause is was not (it was very far from) mainstream popular music. Now that i'm older i no longer hide my taste. Maybe this is a begining of answer....

Another thing i remarked, almost everyone here answered the post by proving it wrong with thier own example. And i can myself cite example of young who loves classical and grown up who dislike it but, IN GENERAL, i find it to be true!

I like the complexities of classical music and the tonal nature of it. I can ear a clasiccal piece for the first time and be able to replay every single partition of it right away on the piano. But with jazz for example, i'm totally lost..... most of the time i don't even find the notes of the melody Jazz had always sounds to my ear the same as an atonal, voices conversation. It uses too much 9th, 11th, 13th and not enough of the 1st, 3rd, 5th and the infamous 7th. Over the 7th, it starts to sound atonal for me...i wonder why ?

I personally like a style of rock that can sound like Classical music

Bit like a medieval band with a set of electric guitars, really.

I like everything except bad rap music.
I have liked everything since childhood. My parents liked all kinds of music (except rock) and exposed me to everything they liked. My exposure to rock came from growing up in an era where the radio was still considered a major form of entertainment.

I still like classical music, but I stop short of liking the stuff that thinks it has to be different to be good. Never liked cacaphony.

I don't find the music snobbish, but many of the people who play it and listen to it behave like snobs. I have a hard time listening to jazz in public for this reason. Jazz is so formulaic I rarely hear anything new. Yet people go to a concert and gush over music which is usually copied from something they'll never understand. Same with blues.

So now I am being snobbish.