20th century Quote by Pierre Schaeffer

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture…

— George Crumb

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

— Bing Crosby

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

— Kemp Muhl

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

I feel like traditional artists feel like everything that they do has to be perfect and touched up, and it has to be about…

— Jake Paul

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

— Pepe Romero

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

Music is like fashion, it's transient and cyclical.

— Satish Kaushik

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

— Duncan Sheik

If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and are digging…

— Jacob Bannon

“The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism”

— Alain Frogley