Art Quote by George Crumb

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

— Mstislav Rostropovich

I think people have forgotten how powerful music has been in history - and what it has been able to do.

— Naughty Boy

I don't know anything about the history of music.

— Sia Furler

Music does not exist in isolation, it is rooted in the political, the social, the cultural. We need to remember this at all times,…

— Lawrence English

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

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture…

— George Crumb

One reason we've been able to do what we do is that we never put our music into any kind of historical perspective.

— Ron Mael

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

— Pepe Romero

It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music.

— Trombone Shorty

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.…

— Steve Vai

We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern.

— Kemp Muhl

“Popular music is not history, but it can be read historically, dialogically, and symptomatically to produce valuable evidence about change over time. Popular music…

— George Lipsitz