“The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.” PeopleKnowsDoeTwoIdeasCountrySometimesSongThreeSoundAudienceKnow HowWrittenRocksStrangePopsContemporaryAppealsThemeFascinatedRock Music Author:Ryan Adams
“When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.” WayTryingTurnsSoundContemporary Author:Nas
“I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.” ThinkingWayMeanIdeasDoneSoundKnowingEnvironmentImagineGoes OnDetailsContemporaryAbstractImagine ThatContemporary MusicKnowing More Author:John Cage
“I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.” ArtistSoundPopsContemporaryPop Art Author:Patti LuPone