12 Contemporary Music Quotes for You to Enjoy

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting. Derek Walcott

Music Art Complicated Painting Musical Complex Some Composition About Abstract Know Contemporary Contemporary Music Equivalent May Which Little

I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public. Elliott Carter

Education Music State More Part Supported Contemporary Contemporary Music Likes Because Felt Than Public Mean Organizations Europe Here Playing

I didn't wait around for my parents' opinion about my venture out into contemporary music. Lizz Wright

Music Wait Parents Out About Contemporary Contemporary Music Venture Around Opinion

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them. Luc Ferrari

Work Music Time Old Musical Composers Part New Major Contemporary Contemporary Music Were Up Them Players Started

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much. Patti LuPone

Love Music Favorite Tell Composers Classic Classic Rock More Mahler Like Contemporary Contemporary Music Because Rock Wagner Very Listen Story Much

I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience. Pierre Boulez

Music You People Other Way Knew Performed Contemporary Contemporary Music Audience Traditional Repertoire Same Wanted Convince Regularly Who Each Treated

The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience. Robert Stigwood

Music Enormous Contemporary Contemporary Music Audience Intelligent Use Film

I've realised that if it is to remain relevant, contemporary music needs to change. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music Needs Change Relevant Remain Contemporary Contemporary Music Realised

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands. Tim Minchin

Music Me Youth Writing College Stage Jazz Two-Year Out Songs Stuff Contemporary Contemporary Music Course Cover Bands Did Endless Just Theater Then Really Eventually Played Started

Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens. William Boyd

Music World Teens Distance Though About Something Consumer Had Contact Since Contemporary Talk Contemporary Music Read Rock Always Rock Music Been Listen Little Avid Even Early

Contemporary Music Quotes

No more contemporary music quotes