“Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.” MusicWonderfulStyleSingingRomanticJazzErasIntimateBroadwayArmstrong Author:Tony Bennett
“If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.” PeopleIfsCultureFunPartyMusicRosePopsErasPop Music Author:Dana Gould
“I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.” MusicGoes OnAddJazzMusicalEras Author:Sonny Criss
“So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.” KindDoneHoursMusicRecordsBlueJazzErasOver ItKind Of Blue Author:Miles Davis
“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."” IfsWritingAbleLanguageGivenTermMusicDangerDevelopmentEvolutionHabitMusicalErasProgressiveComposerListenersFlirtingTransgressionFreezing Book:Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music Source: Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music