Popular music is not history, but it can be read…

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present…

— Ken Burns

History is past politics; and politics present history.

— Anonymous

“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied…

— Paul Cartledge

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

— Edward Augustus Freeman

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and…

— Regis Debray

We must create a history of India in living terms. Up to the present that history, as written by the English, practically begins with…

— Sister Nivedita

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history…

— Henry Ford

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less…

— Henry Ford

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

— Frank Fairfield

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

— Gavin Bryars

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

— John Darnielle

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems…

— Eric Whitacre

I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La Dolce Vita,'…

— Alexandre Desplat

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

— T Bone Burnett