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I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics. — Jenny Lewis

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern. — Cecilia Bartoli

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word. — Desiderius Erasmus

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. — Pietro Mascagni

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. — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. — Lou Reed

No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman's voice. — Roman Payne

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

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. — Henry Rollins

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop. — Bob Dylan

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. — Neville Marriner

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop. — James Mercer

The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams. — Richard Flanagan

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. — Nick Cave

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music. — Greil Marcus

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. — Anthony Burgess

Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks. — George Vecsey

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors. — Hugh Hopper

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

Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living. — Jim Berg

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. — Peter Warlock

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

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty. — Neil Peart

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation. — Siobhan Fahey

I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene. — Mick Rock

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault. — M.I.A.

Even more so in nonindustrialized cultures than in modern Western societies, music is and was part of the fabric of everyday life. — Daniel J. Levitin

This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls. — Bryan Islip

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording. — Timbaland

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school. — Shelby Lynne

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

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new. — Aberjhani

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination. — Tim Hecker

Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music — Haruki Murakami

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

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from. — Evan Parker

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. — John Barbirolli

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues. — Ronnie Wood

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money. — Joe Goddard

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different ... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible. — Pierre Schaeffer

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played — Arnold Schoenberg

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all. — Angelique Kidjo

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern. — Lenny Kravitz

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

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play. — Coleman Hawkins

Victoria liked music full of high passion and drama. "I am a terribly modern person," she decided. — Kate Williams