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The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. -- Kenny G
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. -- Carla Bruni
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles. -- Sara Zarr
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
I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love. -- Nickolas Ashford
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background. -- Billy Childish
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. -- Anthony Braxton
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time -- Brian De Palma
My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music. -- Elliott Carter
The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm. -- Elliott Carter
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people. -- Elliott Carter
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
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
Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all categories and is making a major contribution to contemporary music. -- David Amram
We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good. -- Ennio Morricone
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way. -- Elliott Carter
It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured. -- Frank Sinatra
I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the easiest. I enjoy the challenges - especially those that come with composers who have written contemporary music for the recorder. -- Michala Petri
In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too much and forcing the instrument. It is very easy to be overly expressive on the recorder, and finding the balance is quite difficult. -- Michala Petri
The musical culture in the United States has no doubt suffered severe setbacks, especially in funding, since the early 2000's. However, I've been amazed at the resiliency of those involved with contemporary music in this country. I think composers and those dedicated to contemporary music have reacted with tremendous creativity and resourcefulness. -- Michael Hersch
The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure-but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary 'tools,' etc. -- Michael Merzenich
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time. -- Brian De Palma
My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. -- Sara Zarr
What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He's been a legend for decades and he doesn't know what's going on right now, and he doesn't need to. -- Alexa Ray Joel
Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people. -- Maya Beiser
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
I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don't see that solo voice that was the trademark of Adele. It's no accident that it was her album that ended up selling 27 million copies worldwide. -- Clive Davis
Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music. -- Ryan Tedder
I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera. -- Trevor Nunn
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. -- George Crumb
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records. -- Vince Gill
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. -- Brian Ferneyhough
But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music. -- Oscar Hijuelos
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No. -- Amy Grant
There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music. -- T. D. Jakes
I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade. -- Perry Farrell
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. -- Eberhard Weber
I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum. -- Wynton Marsalis
Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary. -- Pete Seeger
I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art. -- Damien Hirst
FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the runway. -- Chelsea Leyland
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. -- Ralph Ellison
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together. -- Laura Mvula
Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice -- Greil Marcus
They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music. -- Cindy Cashdollar
The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit. -- Jennette McCurdy
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. -- George Crumb
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles." -- Sara Zarr

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