Music History Quotes
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.
The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.
In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.
If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.
Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
When we create, we become stronger. When we create, we feel better. When we create, we can use our own two hands to create a new world. And this new world will be as we want it to be.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.