“Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.” TermMediaMusic IsOutletsVenuesMarginalizedInstrumental Music Author:David Sanborn
“What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.” TermAbilityMusicMusic IsArgumentQuantityConvincing Author:John Ashbery
“I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.” StillsUseSongFatherTermHalfCenturyMusic IsBobElectricDylanTwentieth CenturyAcousticsVernacular Author:Pete Seeger
“For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say I'm a blues man, that's a very serious vocation - to muster the courage to find your own unique voice, to forge your distinctive style in the world, to leave your imprint in the sands of time in such a way that your singularity, your individuality, remains something that people have to come to terms with.” PeopleMenWorldWayVoiceTermStyleSeriousMusic IsUniqueRemainsIndividualityWho I AmSandVocationDistinctiveSingularityMusterUnique VoicesSands Of Time Author:Cornel West
“I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I've buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space.” KnowsFeelsStuffSidesTermSpaceMusic IsSensualBuriedDiscoveringExploringTherapeutic Author:Alicia Keys
“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
“Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to archive it; you want to freeze it in time in terms of your perspective on it, then move on, because folk music is that volatile and comments not only on overall human concerns but also on the specifics.” WantHumansMovingTermMaterialsLike YouPerspectiveEssentialsMusic IsConcernFolksCommentFreezeFolk MusicArchivesSpecifics Author:Paul Stookey
“I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What" is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There?s probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like 'Day After Day'.” ThinkingTwoMatterSongThreeTermRecordsTypeMusic IsNo Matter WhatRadioPopsEpitome Author:Robin Zander
“Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.” ThinkingDifficultTermMusic IsPopsPop MusicBad Music Author:Nina Persson
“Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.” CountryFactsFacesPoliticalTermWorstRocksMusic IsJazzWesternMusicalPopsCodeDiscussionEtcMeaninglessAvant Garde Author:Pat Metheny
“[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.” WantTermMusic Is Author:Bill Walton
“My connection to music is so strong. I cling to it. I vibe out to it. I release stress to it. Music is really always close to me. It's really present in my work in terms of how I relate to characters is through rhythm and sound, even in their speech.” CharacterStrongSoundTermSpeechMusic IsConnectionsStressRhythmReleaseRelateStress Release Author:Mahershala Ali
“The thing about physicists is that they tend to think that everything is physics. I don't. That's not what music is to me. You can explain aspects of it in physical terms, including the physics of anatomy: how our bodies move, the torsional moment of inertia, the way you move your body to a beat, the inherent periodicities of the heartbeat, the gait. That's physics, too, I guess - maybe they'd call it biophysics.” ThinkingHeartMomentsMovingTermMusic IsPhysicsPhysicistHeartbeatAnatomyInertia Author:Vijay Iyer
“We think of music as this substance that flows - you turn on the tap, and there it is, streaming off your computer - but that's not how we evolved as a species. We evolved to listen to each other, and the reason we're able to listen to music in the terms is talking about is because we're really good at listening to each other. But this kind of technology has allowed us to forget that music is the sound of each other.” ThinkingKindReasonTermForgetTechnologyListeningComputerMusic IsListening To MusicStreaming Author:Vijay Iyer
“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 think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really like any actual bands from old times. We take elements of past music styles and past sounds as a way to... this is going to sound very pretentious and perhaps overly thought-out, but as a way to strike chords of vague nostalgia, and strike chords of, "I've heard this before somewhere." That's what a lot of our music is about in terms of the words and ideas behind it, so we really use old sounds as a way to serve that agenda.” ThinkingDonePastTermNaturalStyleMusic IsNostalgiaPretentiousOld Time Author:Alasdair MacLean
“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.” PeopleBlackTermWhiteMusicMusic IsRacismJazzBlack PeopleClassical MusicJazz MusicClassic Music Author:Nina Simone