Fart Quote by John Barbirolli

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

— Henry Rollins

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture,…

— Brian Eno

When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western culture. They had no idea…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty…

— Constant Lambert

“I probably won’t play a song the same way tomorrow as I play it today. Only a pitchman says the same thing the same…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative. It's just…

— Perry Farrell

As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And…

— Anonymous

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 heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can…

— Pauline Oliveros

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill…

— Alan Vega

It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to temptation. There…

— Robert L. Millet