“I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.” IfsThinkingKnowsFirstsMadeCareEvilAliveMediaPerceptionMusic IsInterviewsTrickeryNecessary Evil Author:Jack White
“Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.” ArtBodyPassionPerfectAliveWonderfulPureMusic IsResponseSensualAbstractAchePathos Book:Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.” IfsStillsMomentsPiecesAlivePeriodsMusic IsContemporaryFadesKickingGreat MusicFade Away Author:Steve Reich
“Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.” YearsArtStillsMomentsBornFiveAliveMagicMusic IsYears AgoTwentiesExcitedHungryFive YearsMotivatedTwenty Five Author:Lenny Kravitz
“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. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written” TodayThreeSoundInterestAliveWrittenModernCenturyStudentsPeriodsMusic IsMusicalYesterdaySignificantSignificanceOld FashionedAgelessOld MusicBad Music Author:Peter Warlock
“You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.” WantKindIdeasWholeAmericaPastChurchRecordsAliveOne ThingStreetsMusic IsCatRadioAll KindsHistory Of Music Author:Jerry Garcia
“Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about the message of classical music, because more than any other music, it is about the way life really is.” IfsKnowsWayNeedsBigsAliveMessagesMusic IsClassical Music Author:Michael Tilson Thomas
“Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.” PeopleTryingBitsVoiceAliveGroupsMusic IsFolksBoringMinoritiesBalletFolk MusicMinority Groups Author:John Lennon
“I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.” ThinkingFeelsMomentsRolesPiecesAliveMusic IsThat MomentTransmission Author:Yo-Yo Ma