In the past Quote by Misha Green

I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song…

— Agnes Obel

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It…

— Steve Reich

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent…

— Brian Eno

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That…

— Robert Morris

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians…

— Pierre Schaeffer

It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like…

— Eric Carmen

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

— Norbert Leo Butz

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

— Ned Rorem

I always feel like the past informs my present musically.

— Flying Lotus

If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that…

— Nate Ruess

Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.

— Felix Buxton

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

— Kemp Muhl