Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.
Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.
Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.
When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.