Why do grown-ups like classical music?

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I like classical music. I play it in the youth orchestra. I don't see anything wrong with it. Adults aren't the only ones who like it. I'm 18 and I've liked it since I was a kid.

Chris, Try Steve Vai or Joe Satriani. They place well co-ordinated Rock. Its like classical, but w a guitar....

Also, look for a song called Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory.

And I listen to classical also. Beethoven or Holst mainly.

there's actually cd's out that are symphonies of old rock bands' hits..i have a cd which contains symphonic music from led zeppelin songs..rolling stones have one..i'm sure pink floyd has one too..rock groups like metallica and the scorpions have made cd's where they actually performed with symphonies..but they're not as great (i think) as just hearing the symphony version (no vocals)..

I'm 13 but I like classical music, particularly Bach.

I agree with you on one point, 171NewYork, If the music has words I much prefer it if they are in English.

I went for years only listening to classical and opera - I started out with Bach and Mozart and ended up with Bartok and then left it - I look back quite fondly to that time but I can't imagine getting into it in such a big way again. I find most rock and pop totally vacuous and egoistic - my longtime favourite has been Van Morrison but I don't even listen to him much anymore.

I've loved 'Classical' music ever since I was five or so. As a child I hated pop music and never willingly listened to anything except classical composers. Now that I'm in my late twenties, I've started to enjoy a limited selection of pop music. But most of it I find dull and repetitive from a musical standpoint. I love complexity, which is something pop music rarely strives for.

I love Classical my favorites are

Bach's
Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor
just love the harpsichord movements.

Beethoven's

Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" in E flat major op. 55
very soothing.

Symphony No.5 in C minor op. 67
sounds very nice to my ears.

I like all Classical music

I was raised listening to classical music. Most of the music that I listen to now is either more mellow contemporary Christian music or something instrumental, but not necessarily classical. Classical music is very calming and I can listen to it while I write or work on homework. It's nice because not very much classical music has words, so people who speak all kinds of languages can understand it just as well and the words do not make their way into whatever I happen to be writing, which happens quite often when I am listening to music with words.

As for my favourite composer, I'd probably have to say Bach, though I like what I have heard of Mozart, Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky (did I spell that correctly?). I love the harpsichord music, too. My best friend in elementary school had a harpsichord at his house and was learning how to play it. I still like the sound.

I liked classical music when I was 7 :-/

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I'm seventeen and I've always liked classical music.

My father is department head of music in a college. To him, classical music is God and everything that's popular is utter crap. When listening to anything of this nature, he is quick to critique it as musically shallow and repetative. I suppose he's right, but he does not listen to music for words. He especially despises rap, and thinks it contributes to the degeneracy of society, or something like that.

He has a sort of reluctant tolerance toward certain Heavy Metal bands, because he knows I listen to them and will play them regardless of whether he wants to hear them or not. If we're on the road and I want to listen to a CD I brought along (and we aren't listening to his choice of classical station, where he will have it up loud and be conducting in the air), he will invariably turn the volume down so it is barely audiable. Should I be playing a CD of music of my choice (whether metal, movie soundtrack, or otherwise) he has no trouble being a dick and turning on the TV in the background so he doesn't have to hear it. When I go upstairs angrily, he's baffled, and feebly explains "I didn't know you didn't want me to put on the TV when you're listening to music". Frankly, I don't know anyone who does.

I don't know if some of his influence has rubbed off on me or not. I feel like a musical idiot compared to him. He forced me to play the trombone in a symphonic band when I was 10 (I reluctantly entered, because of my bitter piano experiences a few years earlier, when he was also being a dick), and I played the trombone all throughout middle school and high school. I don't know if I can say I had any talent or natural inclination. He told me I had a good ear, but hardly so much played as I pantomimed the playing around me. I quit playing an instrument when I went into college, and when I took a music appreciation coarse, I felt like a musical idiot, because I could not identify a single thing while listening to music of any kind. I only knew that I liked some music and not others.

I don't know if my love of metal is connected with my appreciation of classical music. I think to some degree it is, because I dislike most pop music and MTV music. Though the stuff I listen to may also be musically shallow compared to classical, it is far more complex and expressive than the crap I hear on most radios. I have a certain taste for bombast in music; it must be powerful and intense, or moody, emotional, and atmospheric in some way. I can appreciate the light-hearted nature of certain songs of other, more popular genres, but mostly for their lyrics.

I like Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Holst, and (obviously) some symphonic marching band music, but I listen to them infrequently.

My current ten favorite bands include Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, Helloween, Nile, Opeth, Death, Dimmu Borgir, Finntroll, and White Skull.

There's a certain bitter irony to 171NewYork creating one of WP's most enduring topics.

Most classical music sounds snobie to me. The slow pace stuff the most lazy idle rich
waste of space snobs. The nobles and kings and lord's and ladys crap. That said I still enjoy the more upbeat stuff if I do listen to classical type music.

I probably like classical music more than my parents do.

I like classical music, and my parents do also. But we like a lot popular music (you know, rock, pop, cumbia, etc...) played instrumental... it's cool because you can play it and everybody likes it, so there are no fights or anything...

My mom and mi sister like vallenatos, and I hate them...