Hit Quote by Rostam Batmanglij

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

Western music is alien to my ears.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

— Ben Katchor

Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers me about Western music is that it doesn't have an…

— John Tavener

“Since its beginnings, Western music is bound, by an insurmountable convention, to the need to express subjectivity. It stands against the harsh sound of…

— Milan Kundera

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where…

— Leonard Cohen

There is so much restlessness and chaos in the society, and that's what music depicts.

— Liz Mitchell

It was quite frightening to be asked to write the music of a Western because there are so many things that you can refer…

— Alexandre Desplat

In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually…

— David Bryan

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

— Jason Mraz

People in the West want to hear Indian melody, not someone who is aping the West.

— Anu Malik

There's a vulnerability to our music that attracts people.

— Justin Chancellor