Built Quote by Terry Riley

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone…

— Paul Lansky

To me, that's when music was music. Every studio had a full symphonic orchestra and a whole bunch of singers they used on every…

— Thurl Ravenscroft

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

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric…

— Steve Lacy

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for…

— Karen DeCrow

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't…

— Terry Gross

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

— Kemp Muhl

A lot has changed in music since I began playing in 1987.

— John Popper

The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any…

— Bryce Dessner

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

— Giorgio Moroder