Abigail Quote by Abigail Biddinger

“But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. ”

— Arthur Phillips

“For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre elitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by clutching at…

— Alex Ross

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

— Patrick Stump

“...for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.”

— Irene Nemirovsky

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

— Bocafloja

“Music can act as an invisible uniting force that claims the unclaimed and defines the outcasts of a culture.”

— Bob Boilen

“The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism”

— Alain Frogley

Fetishized as a commodity, music is illustrative of the evolution of our entire society: deritualize a social form, repress an activity of the body,…

— Jacques Attali

Nowadays music just exploits the human nature, because people no longer see it as expressing their inner-most feelings but fuelling the listeners ego

— Juru Samuels

“The Society music plays around and over us, but our thoughts are our own.”

— Ally Condie

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

— Chris Lowe

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the…

— Kingsley Amis