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

  • We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We're the kind of band that can cross those lines.

    Interview with John Katic, www.revolvermag.com. March 5, 2013.
  • I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

  • All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

    Funny   Music   People  
  • All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

    Song   Love You   Writing  
  • Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

  • What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

  • It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

    Past   Thinking   Looks  
    Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com
  • There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

  • Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

    Song   Writing   Artist  
  • That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

  • The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

    Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.
  • Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

  • The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

    Pieces   May   Hearing  
    Source: www.rogerebert.com
  • 85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?

  • I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music.

    Source: artsmania.ca
  • In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

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

  • Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  • Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation
  • Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

    Of modern music. Quoted in M Kennedy Barbirolli, Conductor Laureate (1971).
  • What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.

    Confused   Mean   Rocks  
    "Strummer on Man, God, Law - and the Clash". Interviewed with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. January 31, 1988.
  • All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

  • Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.

    Looks   World   Sound  
    "New Michael Jackson music coming in May" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2014.
  • As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off.

  • It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to temptation. There are so many things today in modern music, on television, and in the movies that portray a life that is nowhere near the life the Lord would have us live. Consequently, we cannot afford to turn to the radio, television, or Hollywood to take our cues about what is right and what is wrong. It is scary to realize that the more we are exposed to Hollywood's version of life, the more we gradually begin to accept it.

    Strong   Giving   Scary  
  • If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

    Thinking   Today   Way  
    Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com
  • I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put in a ghetto like that. We have something to give to others. When you look to how African music is built, when you understand this kind of music, you can understand that a lot of all this modern music that you are hearing in the world has similarities to African music. It's like the origin of a lot of kinds of music.

    Ghetto   Thinking   Names  
  • In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.

    Class   Sorrow   Pants  
    Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.23, Penguin UK
  • Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

    Music   Jazz   Modern  
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