20th century Quote by Daryl Hall

“during this century (the twentieth) we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music and television.…

— Douglas Adams

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were…

— Brian Setzer

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole…

— David Finckel

I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They…

— Matt Bellamy

“There is a striking feature of the twentieth century… the musical creation of the 20th century is qualitatively different from the 18th century, in…

— Noam Chomsky

Otherwise the history just gets completely flattened out, and people imagine that everything was always available and accessible. One of the things that struck…

— David Grubbs

The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd…

— Colleen Atwood

Any musical form that has been around long enough to have cultural resonance beyond just being a cutting edge kind of communication - but,…

— Alan Menken

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't…

— Terry Gross

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art…

— George Crumb

“Music had shown that it could now articulate, reflect and project a sense of an established secular order – hence allowing the absolutist polemics…

— John Eliot Gardiner

There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very…

— Tod Machover