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I think an awful lot of the rock bands for the last ten years or so, they've been very aware of classical music. You take a band like Radiohead and going back to Pink Floyd and Genesis, they did a lot of things based on classical music.

We're talking about 500 or 600 years of music, all in different styles. How can you compare Purcell (Henry Purcell) with Philip Glass (Philip Glass) and everything in between? There is good music and bad music. The music that is being written today by people who would be called classical composers is taking in different influences, such as world music.