“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.” WayLongEnoughYoungOpinionModernPromiseBandUltimateQuartersHalfwaySo SadModern MusicHalfway There Author:Alan Vega
“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.” IfsReasonCasesModernWindBalanceEqualObviousCombinationStringsInterpretationSatisfyingCompositionOrchestraAdaptedModern Music Author:John Philip Sousa
“To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.” TakenModernDutyBombsMelancholyThrowingSeekersSinisterSensationalAlready TakenModern Music Author:Constant Lambert
“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.” SoulTurnsModernHip HopHipsHopsEchoesModern Music Author:Ronnie Wood
“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.” LooksStillsAgeChristianityToo MuchModernMiddleMiddle AgesThresholdCrudeModern MusicScholasticism Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“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.” PeopleWantMeanSoundTalkingRecordsModernRocksMusic IsRootsProductionsRhythmConfusedBuyingRock N RollElectricRhythm And BluesModern MusicI'm Confused Author:Joe Strummer
“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.” ThinkingWayLooksPastForceWonderfulModernModern Music Author:George Harrison
“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.” KindSongLinesAudienceModernRocksBandElementsCrossesEnjoyedAppealsVisualsBarriersGapsPortionsRock And RollModern Music Author:Andy Biersack
“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?” ThinkingNamesModernRight NowTenHotDamnThings To DoSmokingCoincidenceLooking GoodOne WomanDamn ThingsModern Music Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.” IfsModernRootsDon't TrustModern Music Author:Angelique Kidjo
“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?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingHeartArtistSongTurnsStuffBitsRecordsWrittenTreeModernLove YouWindColdMy HeartMusic IsOkayAssBrokeBrownLove Each OtherSigningWigsHeart BrokeBlowing ItModern Music Author:Frank Zappa
“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.” GivingPersonsTodayYoungTurnsStrongRealizingAcceptingLordModernTelevisionHollywoodRadioRefuseScaryVersionsTemptationUnusualExposedRidiculeStrong PersonModern Music Author:Robert L. Millet
“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.” ThinkingWorldGivingLooksKindNamesModernMusic IsBuiltHearingSimilarityGhettoWorld MusicModern MusicAfrican Music Author:Baaba Maal
“All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.” StillsModernHonestyMachineryHeartedModern Music Author:Neil Peart
“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.” WorldIdeasModernEvolutionHistoricalNo IdeaCivilizedModern Music Author:Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.” MayMomentsPiecesModernDangerPeriodsHearingTiedModern Music Author:Aldis Hodge