“But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.” PeopleIfsSchoolYoungMusic IsMusicalFewerImplicationsMusical Education Author:Johannes Rau
“You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.” YoungWaitingPaintingListeningMusic IsAspectFingersTomsSophisticatedToolbox Author:Elvis Costello
“A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.” KidsYoungOrderInterestRealizingEffortAudienceTvsMusic IsRadioColleaguesPromotingClassical Music Author:David Garrett
“Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.” IfsWayLooksPlayYoungWallMusicianMusic IsInstrumentsNails Author:Joe Zawinul
“It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.” FeelsHomeLastsYoungLeftBedMusic IsBallsTiredBarsDawnThirtyFiftyTragicFortyTouchingSixtySeventiesEightyHeartbreakingBe YoungFeyLast Dance Author:Rose Macaulay
“I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.” PeopleKnowsHelpingYoungSufferingMusic Is Author:Patti Smith
“My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.” PeopleYoungParentMusic Is Author:Neil Diamond
“Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They also forget that music can be a source of hope, a reason to live.” PeopleThinkingReasonYoungParentForgetRocksSourcePoliticianDespairMusic IsReflectionPreacherRock MusicReason To Live Book:Wicked Game Source: Wicked Game
“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 think the [music] industry really suffered from music being available online because it made young people feel, "why should you pay for music, if it's so readily available for free?"” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsShouldMadeYoungPayIndustryMusic IsAvailableOnlineMusic Industry Author:Corinne Bailey Rae
“Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.” ArtRealHardHelpingKidsSpiritualYoungSoundEmotionConsciousnessFocusProveMusic IsEssenceInvisibleInvisible Things Author:Wynton Marsalis
“The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me that the music was a big part of their success at attracting young people.” PeopleBigsKidsYoungMusicianMusic IsMikeCatchy Author:Roger Ross Williams
“Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.” PeopleShouldTryingMadeRunningYoungRocksYouthMusic IsPairsProvincesRock MusicTightsSpandex Author:Nick Cave
“My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.” LittlesYoungBitsPeriodsLuckyLittle BitMusic IsTeenagerListening To Music Author:Stanley Kubrick
“I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.” WritingYoungEvolutionMusic IsIntellectualPopsClassical MusicPop MusicMusic Love Author:Lady Gaga
“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
“My favorite time in music is probably 1970-75. Still Bill by Bill Withers, Harvest by Neil Young, John Prine's first album, James Taylor's One Man Dog-I hope I can bring the same sort of spirit I hear on those records.” MenFirstsStillsI CanYoungSpiritRecordsDogMusic IsBillsMy FavoriteAlbumsOne ManHarvest Author:Amos Lee
“I guess music is just something I've kind of always done. I never really thought too much about it, it was just another way to create, and I did it as a pretty young lad.” WayKindDoneYoungToo MuchMusic IsAnother WayLad Author:BØRNS
“When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres back then were different. The café life really stemmed from the Parisians' idea of it, with poets struggling over their poems and drinking coffee. No music, no sounds, maybe a little jazz, or soul, but mostly nothing. Now you go into a café and the music is really loud, people are having business meetings, they are on their cellphones. It changes from generation to generation.” PeopleWritingLittlesIdeasDifferentSoulHomeYoungSoundStruggleGenerationsPoetMusic IsJazzMeetingsDrinkingNotionCoffeeAtmosphereLoudCellphoneDrinking CoffeeBusiness Meeting Author:Patti Smith
“My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsTryingYearsStillsWantedYoungAttitudeForeverRecordsHappenedMusicianMusic IsTwentiesPopsGladThirtyMy TimeFrozenPop MusicThirty YearsMy AttitudeEphemeralFrozen In Time Author:Kurt Ralske