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...as a pianist, I can't say I was always a big fan of contemporary music. The challenge of late Beethoven, or Mozart, or Schubert seemed to me to be somehow greater or more worthwhile than that of learning difficult, ill-placed notes. To me, the kind of transcendence in the older pieces really was more interesting. That's not to say I didn't love the contemporary pieces I did play. I became very attached to the ones I learned, and I played them with pleasure and absolute commitment. It may be terrible to say this, but playing some of that music is like having a handicapped child. You love it all the more for the problems that it gives you. ~ Leon Fleisher
Contemporary Music quotes by Leon Fleisher
Obviously there are pieces of classical music that are some of the most beautiful music ever written, for me anyway is a lot of classical or contemporary music, so it's a different kind of space that you enter when you're listening to it. ~ Bryce Dessner
Contemporary Music quotes by Bryce Dessner
The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm. ~ Elliott Carter
Contemporary Music quotes by Elliott Carter
We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good. ~ Ennio Morricone
Contemporary Music quotes by Ennio Morricone
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way. ~ Elliott Carter
Contemporary Music quotes by Elliott Carter
I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment. ~ John Cage
Contemporary Music quotes by John Cage
The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure-but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary 'tools,' etc. ~ Michael Merzenich
Contemporary Music quotes by Michael Merzenich
I don't know much about contemporary music. I do have an iPod but I listen to a lot of old blues. I listen to John Lee Hooker and Elmore James. I have been listening to them for years. I was obsessed with Van Morrison for years. I went to see him recently where he performed Astral Weeks. I just spent the entire night crying, but I was really obsessed with Van Morrison. ~ Robert Pattinson
Contemporary Music quotes by Robert Pattinson
Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people. ~ Maya Beiser
Contemporary Music quotes by Maya Beiser
I don't think anyone listening to my music needs any special knowledge. They don't need to have a background in contemporary music. They don't need to go to new-music concerts all the time in order to be able to understand it. ~ Missy Mazzoli
Contemporary Music quotes by Missy Mazzoli
The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. ~ Kenny G
Contemporary Music quotes by Kenny G
The musical culture in the United States has no doubt suffered severe setbacks, especially in funding, since the early 2000's. However, I've been amazed at the resiliency of those involved with contemporary music in this country. I think composers and those dedicated to contemporary music have reacted with tremendous creativity and resourcefulness. ~ Michael Hersch
Contemporary Music quotes by Michael Hersch
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. ~ Anthony Braxton
Contemporary Music quotes by Anthony Braxton
One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact into their business plans. They've come into an industry that's based on idiosyncratic artists and tried to erase every idiosyncratic aspect out of it. ~ Moby
Contemporary Music quotes by Moby
I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the easiest. I enjoy the challenges - especially those that come with composers who have written contemporary music for the recorder. ~ Michala Petri
Contemporary Music quotes by Michala Petri
Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music.
[Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990] ~ Igor Stravinsky
Contemporary Music quotes by Igor Stravinsky
It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured. ~ Frank Sinatra
Contemporary Music quotes by Frank Sinatra
My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music. ~ Elliott Carter
Contemporary Music quotes by Elliott Carter
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people. ~ Elliott Carter
Contemporary Music quotes by Elliott Carter
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. ~ Carla Bruni
Contemporary Music quotes by Carla Bruni
I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it. ~ George Strait
Contemporary Music quotes by George Strait
When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories. ~ Madonna Ciccone
Contemporary Music quotes by Madonna Ciccone
Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the best happiness an artist can have. I'm not alone on stage but with a group of musicians. So the more the music is successful, the more the audience feel happy about the music. It's the responsiblity of an artist to make his fans happy. That is proposition. I'm always talking about proposition. ~ Manu Dibango
Contemporary Music quotes by Manu Dibango
Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water. ~ Jan Hammer
Contemporary Music quotes by Jan Hammer
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. ~ Miriam Makeba
Contemporary Music quotes by Miriam Makeba
I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning. ~ Paul Thomas Anderson
Contemporary Music quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops ... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue. ~ Kim Gordon
Contemporary Music quotes by Kim Gordon
The people need to feel the music. ~ Ronnie Spector
Contemporary Music quotes by Ronnie Spector
The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart. ~ David Swing
Contemporary Music quotes by David Swing
You're just a little too hip for the room. It's not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass. ~ Russell Malone
Contemporary Music quotes by Russell Malone
Willow and I definitely talked about doing a collaboration. She really loves rock music, so she wants to come on and get crazy with me on a track. Which I would love, because she has a fantastic voice. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith
Contemporary Music quotes by Jada Pinkett Smith
She kissed him tonight, just like she had the first time twelve years ago, with everything she had. ~ D.D. Ayres
Contemporary Music quotes by D.D. Ayres
And how to stop the rot? How to salvage something from time's passage? How long before the map makers decide to erase this structure completely? Before it becomes a nameless ruin? And then a mere pile of stones? Mossed over. Forgotten. How long before they lift its name from their charts and from our collective memory? The only thing I can do is fill the place with music. ~ Richard Skelton
Contemporary Music quotes by Richard Skelton
In 1970, Women's Lib preached universal sisterhood and resistance to "patriarchy" anywhere and in any form; today, Women's Studies, like contemporary establishment feminism generally, is meekly multicultural, treating non-Western social practices with deference even when they involve the brutal subjection of females. ~ Bruce Bawer
Contemporary Music quotes by Bruce Bawer
I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still. ~ Phil Spector
Contemporary Music quotes by Phil Spector
The Egyptians rated music highly, and Plato considered their music superior to the Greek, both for melody and energy. But harmony and rhythm were always subordinated to the words, and the subject-matter was paramount. ~ James Teackle Dennis
Contemporary Music quotes by James Teackle Dennis
Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious. ~ Arca
Contemporary Music quotes by Arca
For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes. ~ Donatella Versace
Contemporary Music quotes by Donatella Versace
How have you always felt?" he wondered.
"Loved." Her eyes opened and met his. "Wanted, happy, excited. A little sad."
He felt himself stiffen. "Why sad?"
"Because it always feels like one lifetime with you just isn't enough. ~ Airicka Phoenix
Contemporary Music quotes by Airicka Phoenix
When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth. ~ Ann Beattie
Contemporary Music quotes by Ann Beattie
Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system. ~ Victoria Wood
Contemporary Music quotes by Victoria Wood
The most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is ... what happens in the practice room. ~ William Westney
Contemporary Music quotes by William Westney
After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place. ~ Adam Lambert
Contemporary Music quotes by Adam Lambert
I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over. ~ Schuyler Fisk
Contemporary Music quotes by Schuyler Fisk
I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae. ~ B.o.B
Contemporary Music quotes by B.o.B
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight ...
[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells ... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of
meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. ~ Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
Contemporary Music quotes by Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
I met a girl who sang the blues
and I asked her for some happy news,
but she just smiled and turned away.
And the three men I admire most,
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost,
They caught the last train to the coast
The day the music died. ~ Don McLean
Contemporary Music quotes by Don McLean
Ronnie James Dio died the other day, quietly succumbed to a relatively sudden onset of stomach cancer and up and left the planet in a blaze of stage fire, dragonsmoke and general metal awesomeness. Maybe you heard. ~ Mark Morford
Contemporary Music quotes by Mark Morford
I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music. ~ Dennis Brown
Contemporary Music quotes by Dennis Brown
They were both so beautiful, and their sound, as we said them to each other above the music, made our chests fill up with something electric and buzzing, like love and magic. ~ Andrew Smith
Contemporary Music quotes by Andrew Smith
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