Culture Quote by Igor Markevitch

I feel like there are moments where musicians may be more interested - or culture in general - to show roots and where one…

— Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega

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

Music is part of our culture.

— Mohit Chauhan

The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians…

— Daniel Barenboim

Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still with us,…

— David Finckel

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

— Isaac Stern

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

— Ferruccio Busoni

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

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

— Bob Boilen

“Music allows us to assemble temporal sequences into mental scaffolding that transcends the thinness of time in which we live.”

— George B. Dyson

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

— John Flansburgh