Clarinet Quote by Pete Townshend

I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no samples or…

— Rahki

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

Electronic music was just discovery about sound, all our sound options. The core percussions and melodies, they forget about it, they didn't think about…

— Patrick Watson

I think in my generation, when I came along in the early '60s, the type of music that was in vogue in society in…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

It is difficult to understand the fortunes of an instrument. There was music written for the guitar until the mid-19th century. Then the instrument…

— Julian Bream

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So…

— Anne Waldman

I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a…

— Z'EV

I think it's nearly impossible to be original now. For anything revolutionary to happen again, new instruments have to be invented. A new kind…

— Jorge Elbrecht

Technology was changing just as we were getting started. You had these records by people like David Bowie and Talking Heads and Brian Eno…

— Curt Smith

It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from…

— James Vincent McMorrow

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in…

— Tori Amos

Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that is somewhat…

— Tim Commerford