Love Quote by David Ogden Stiers

There is a gentle evangelism baked into David Ogden Stiers' line: not the hard sell of a cultural gatekeeper, but the satisfied mischief of someone who knows classical music can feel like a locked room until the right person hands you the key. "Pulling people in" is vivid on purpose. It frames the concert hall not as a shrine for the already-initiated but as a place you can be coaxed into, like a great restaurant you never thought to try. Stiers positions himself as a bridge, not a judge.

The real action is in "getting their ears tuned". He avoids the snobbiest vocabulary of high culture (no "refinement", no "elevation") and instead reaches for a craft metaphor. Tuning suggests adjustment rather than conversion: your hearing isn't inadequate, just slightly out of calibration for this particular language of sound. That phrasing carries an actor's sensibility too. Actors think in terms of audience attention, timing, and access points. Stiers isn't arguing that concertgoers are better people; he's arguing that the experience can be better heard with a little guidance.

Context matters: Stiers was a pop-culture face with serious classical credentials, one of those rare performers who could move between mainstream entertainment and the concert world without treating either as a guilty pleasure. The subtext is democratic but not naive: institutions like concert halls often repel newcomers, and "tuning" is his workaround, a promise that the barrier isn't intelligence, it's familiarity.