Havens Quote by Jackie McLean

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there…

— Evelyn Glennie

Music can be new to you but not new right now. It can be really fun to ask people of different generations what they…

— Liv Bruce

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

— King Krule

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down…

— Robbie Robertson

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

— Coleman Hawkins

I have been given something really, really special and really unique, and it is not just in and of itself having learned from my…

— Anoushka Shankar

Learning to play old instruments was a challenge. How do you learn an instrument no one has played in hundreds of years? The ones…

— Einar Selvik

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

— Tom Chapin

I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to…

— Chick Corea

When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story together. You've…

— Brian Fallon

I was born understanding the language of music.

— Julian Bream