I made the mistake of putting on a classical guitar station on my drive back home.
I have such a tortured relationship with the classical guitar. Really, I believe that there's no other instrument that is as personal, intimate or versatile as the classical guitar. There's no bow, no keys, no amp, no wind, no reed, nothing. It's just you and six strings. And because of that with the right piece of music you can delve so much deeper into emotion than any other way. I mean really performing the masterpieces like Tedesco's Platero y Yo, or Piazolla's 5 pieces, or some of Brouwer's masterpieces will literally change your life as you can really plumb the depths of music and emotion with them.
And the great thing about it is that most people have never even heard of them. So you can introduce them to it. But for every masterpiece there's mountains of crap pieces that the more you learn about music the more you see that they're really just disposable and really not very good. Like 90% of the stuff out there for the classical guitar is like that. Another 5% are masterpieces but ones you've heard so much you just sorta roll your eyes every time you hear it, like how most pianists roll their eyes at the moonlight sonata, yeah, it's a beautiful piece but it's been done to death. So really you have only 5% of the stuff that's worth listening to/playing out of an already tiny repetoire. It's sorta like having a girl you once loved that is beautiful and intelligent then spend almost her entire time doing meth.
