Avant garde Quote by Neville Marriner

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

— Steve Hackett

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

— Pepe Romero

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

— Susanna Phillips

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.

— Paul Morley

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles,…

— George Crumb

Composers are always going back to the past.

— Anne Dudley

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art…

— George Crumb

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

— Daryl Hall

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

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance…

— Peter Warlock