“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.” MindStatesAgeDifferencesPleasureQualityConditionsMusic IsSeasonsSacredDistinctionProductiveTemperSecularAnguish Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion
“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.” ShouldAgeLiteratureEffectsMusic IsDignityAgreeRemainsSacredSecularCheerfulSecular Music Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.” PeopleAgeTodayMusic IsJazzBackgroundsCreedsJazz MusicEthnicity Author:Michelle Obama
“Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.” ThinkingFeelingsAgeHoursSleepCommonMusic IsContraryCommon SenseWakingSolace Author:Mark Heard
“I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. I obviously wanted to learn to play. And so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. My grandmother apparently said no. So I could read music before I could read, and I really don't remember learning to read music. So for me it's like a native language. When I look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.” IfsThinkingLooksSaidPlayAgeWantedRememberYoungMotherThreeHouseLanguageParentTeachTaughtMusic IsMake SensePianoNativeGrandmotherSheetsMy GrandmotherLearning To ReadNative Language Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” IfsKnowsWorldWayWritingKindDifferentMomentsWould BeAgeFacesAudienceSuccessfulSawsStageParticularMusicianMusic IsConcernedLifetimeFinishedDifferent KindsSongwritersKeep The FaithDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Bruce Springsteen
“The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.” AgeEvilTroubleMusic IsNew Age Author:Brian Eno
“The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.” ArtAgeFormPurposeTermStyleMusic IsEnormousErasRealmsClassical Music Author:David Finckel
“I do have issues with the fact that music is so accessible nowadays. When I was growing up, we had to find our music; we had to fight for it. But hey, you live in the age that you're born in, and you get on with it.” FactsAgeFightingBornGrowing UpIssuesGrowingMusic IsHeyHey You Author:Andrew Loog Oldham
“Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.” KnowsWayDoneAgeStuffBandMusic IsWineOld AgeRetiring Author:Herbie Mann
“I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.” TryingYearsFirstsMadeAgeAbleParentMy OwnHeardRocksProduceEvolutionBandMusicianMusic IsGuitarRadioPopsClassicReliefCopiesPunkTapePop MusicRock MusicElectronic MusicRecordersPlaying GuitarClassic RockRock Musicians Author:Christian Fennesz
“People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.” PeopleKnowsWritingSaidAgeFatherBornFourHappenedHeardTheoryMusic IsSymphonyConductorAffinity Author:William Shatner
“Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession.” YearsFactsBigsKidsAgeYoungDecisionForgetStageMusic IsImpactProfessionPianoPerformingChicagoOrchestraSymphonyClassical MusicElevenSymphony Orchestras Author:Herbie Hancock
“The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.” HandsAgeArtistLostMusic IsAlbumsListenersArtworkDownloadsMp3 Author:Mark Hoppus
“I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I'm concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.” ShouldKindAgeGuyStepsStageMusic IsConcernedDancingFolksBootsBarnsWellington Author:Johnny Marr
“I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.” TryingAgeArtistRealizingOpinionEffectsMusic IsStandingBoxesDigitalSoapDigital AgeRanting And Raving Author:DJ Shadow
“I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be the future to go run away into the recording studio. How can we take that kind of complexity and richness and make it possible for people to touch it and play it live. That's what hyperinstruments are.” PeopleThinkingKindPlayRunningAgeRichMusic IsStudiosComplexityRunning AwayRichnessRecording Studio Author:Tod Machover
“Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of things that I can't if I just make a record. A lot of times it's the only way people are going to hear my music because you don't get to have your music played on Top 40 if you're above the age of 35.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsI CanShowsAgeRecordsMusic IsInspiredExcited Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't even talk about. We know it's there. The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially. We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that's what it's all about really. Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen - that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen. I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.” ThinkingRealAgeSpiritualLanguageReligiousExistenceListeningPoliticianMusic IsGratefulNew AgeGetting High Author:Jerry Garcia
“The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people. Young people aren't starting to listen to Jazz and carrying it along in their lives with them. Jazz is becoming more like Classical music in terms of its relationship to the audience. And just a Classical music is grappling with the problem of audience development, so is Jazz grappling with this problem. I believe, deeply that Jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say to ordinary people. But it has to be systematic about getting out the message.” PeopleBelieveEnoughProblemAgeI BelieveTermAudienceMusic IsJazzOrdinary PeopleClassical Music Author:Terry Teachout
“I would say I was a little bit outgoing, a little bit shy. I was definitely much more shy than my brother. I was young - age six. I was really drawn to music because my brother started playing instruments and I wanted to be at his level, even though I was younger.” AgeBrotherMusic IsMy BrotherShyOutgoing Author:Rostam Batmanglij
“I know where my heart is and I know that I can make people feel something with my music. I'm quite confident in what I am doing, so if I can also make a song that people want to put in ten times during a party and makes them happy, then I think that is also good. I feel that playfulness is something that has entered my life a lot more in the last couple of years. I'm not taking everything too seriously. I think that is something that comes with age - I hope. I feel that music is much more fun for me than it has ever been.” PeopleThinkingHeartAgeSongFunPartyCoupleMy HeartMusic Is Author:Ane Brun
“What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.” PeopleThinkingWayAgeMusic IsI RealizedTick Author:Yo-Yo Ma