Historical Quote by Einar Selvik

In my culture we had songs for everything, and that's lost now. There were songs for when people were born, when they died, when…

— Einar Selvik

A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed…

— Brian Eno

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That…

— Robert Morris

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three…

— Peter Warlock

I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really like any…

— Alasdair MacLean

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was…

— Linus Roache

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

— Ziggy Marley

We consolidated the style of 4Minute by experimenting with different sounds throughout the years.

— Hyuna

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just…

— Freya Stark

Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the…

— Hafez Nazeri

I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.

— Mario Botta

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the…

— Jacques Pepin