Modern Music Quotes
Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.
I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment
There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.
The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative. It's just good, strong, modern music.
It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.
The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.
I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music.
All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.
If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.