Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music. — Pepe Romero Copy Share Image
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest -… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern… — Mick Rock Copy Share Image
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative.… — Perry Farrell Copy Share Image
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… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world. — L.A. Reid Copy Share Image
When you think 'Peaky Blinders,' when it first began it got mixed reviews and people didn't know what to do with it,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough… — Alan Vega Copy Share Image
When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western culture. They had… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has… — Peter Warlock Copy Share Image
It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to… — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to… — Baaba Maal Copy Share Image
As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I probably won’t play a song the same way tomorrow as I play it today. Only a pitchman says the same thing… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment. — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty. — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all. — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful...… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windows the deep bass of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
