Appreciation Quote by Sonny Rollins

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to…

— Igor Stravinsky

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

— Lester Bowie

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed…

— Josh Tillman

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy…

— Alan Bishop

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today…

— Joey Ramone

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into…

— Kurt Loder

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

— Pharrell Williams

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

— Kim Harrison

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

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

— Tod Machover

The proliferation of new music groups and individual performers focusing on new music today is heartening. On the one hand the culture is very…

— Michael Hersch

The relationship that people have with music is entirely different now. People spend much less time experiencing music on a one on one level…

— Jacob Bannon