Complexes Quote by Leonard Cohen

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

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only…

— Daniel Barenboim

Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.

— Sam Hunt

If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our…

— Martin Gore

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical…

— George Crumb

Music is part of our culture.

— Mohit Chauhan

Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Music is a natural platform where different cultures express their different way of living..

— KIKI

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European…

— Sonny Rollins

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

— Mark Hoppus

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of…

— Robin Pecknold

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort…

— Oliver Sacks