Modern Music Quotes
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Modern Music Quotes & Sayings
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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
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
— Gavin Bryars
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 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
But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.
— Duncan Sheik
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 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