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I don't use old music. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today. -- Ziggy Marley
I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie. -- Sophie McShera
Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it. -- Jeff Lynne
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. -- Peter Warlock
When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment. -- James Wolk
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello. -- Anthony Holden
You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me. -- Christina Aguilera
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence. -- Ronnie Barker
I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today. -- Imelda May
It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there's a camera in front of their face. -- Brandon Boyd
I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I love punk music. I'm also a fan of mixing vintage with some high fashion, which links back to my musical taste because I tend to mix old music with newer songs. -- Chelsea Leyland
I like the old '90s music. -- Michael B. Jordan
When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business. -- Scott Caan
Country music is about new love and it's about old love. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old. -- Marvin Sapp
I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music. -- Judith Hill
I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll. -- Roger Glover
Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great. -- DJ Shadow
African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West. -- Miriam Makeba
I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns. -- Ruthie Foster
You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music. -- DJ Quik
I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old. -- Ariana Grande
I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old. -- Jake Bugg
It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music -- Christina Milian
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. -- Dolly Parton
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. -- Bernard Williams
Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. -- Peter Watts
There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern. -- Lenny Kravitz
The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old. -- Steve Winwood
I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school. -- Shelby Lynne
My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old. -- Chubby Checker
I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old. -- Jello Biafra
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. -- Eberhard Weber
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. -- Steve Hackett
I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock. -- Greg Evigan
There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old. -- Paul Morley
I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that. -- Tim Heidecker
When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15. -- Johnny Winter
I listen to a lot of different kind of music. A lot of weird-ass music, like weird-ass, old Portishead. -- Mac Miller
I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old. -- Kesha
My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old. -- Chris Robinson
I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it. -- Stromae
My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music. -- Merle Haggard
I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations. -- Yannis Philippakis
Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music. -- Lester Bowie
I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto. -- Scott Speedman
Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is. -- Leon Redbone
When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. -- Chris Martin
There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music. -- Matt Tong
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. -- Pete Seeger
I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously. -- Alan Palomo
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' -- Pete Seeger
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes. -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. -- Five for Fighting
I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones. -- Pauline Oliveros
Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead -- Terry Pratchett
I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same. -- Toni Braxton
I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well. -- Deepika Padukone
My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old. -- Leland Sklar
I got into music because my Dad used to tell everyone I had the voice of an angel when I was two-years-old. -- Janine and The Mixtape
When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity. -- Robert Crumb
I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. -- Adrian Grenier
I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old. -- Willie Dixon
the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest. -- David Thorne
Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things. -- Eric Carr
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. -- Erwin Schrodinger
Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically. -- Ralph Stanley
A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones. -- Megha Khare
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes. -- Spike Jonze
I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important. -- Tanya Fischer
I would probably keep it old school with The Isley Brothers. Their music relaxes me and I can listen to it all day. -- Virgil Green
What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret. -- Fred Ebb
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals. -- Lykke Li
I was 35 years old and not in the best of shape. I spent many late nights playing music, drinking beer, and eating Taco Bell. -- Bryan Hayes
Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time? -- Hilton Als
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since. -- Herbie Hancock
My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste. -- Virgil Green
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music. -- Jay Kay
Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake. -- Bjork
Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track. -- Bill Bixby
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. -- Peter Warlock
It's old white ladies, old black ladies, old black men, who don't even listen. Everyone else, everyone who understands, likes Snoop Dogg. They like my music. -- Snoop Dogg
The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication." -- Frances Densmore
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. -- Yoko Ono
Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music. -- Kent Beck
I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites. -- Tanya Tucker
And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that. -- Eva Ibbotson
Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music. -- Kanye West
I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life. -- Mark Hall
My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music. -- Shakira
I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all. -- Big K.R.I.T.
The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music. -- Florence Welch
I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power. -- Mark Rippetoe
When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old. -- Jon Landau
I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music. -- Juicy J
For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness. -- Dwight Yoakam
I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness. -- Theophilus London
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. -- B. B. King
But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too. -- Kenneth Edmonds
When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could. -- Loretta Lynn
I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness. -- Theophilus London
I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too. -- Kenneth Edmonds
In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work. -- Paul Weller
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public? -- Bill Wyman
I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music. -- Charles Frazier
Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old. -- Buenaventura Durruti
I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old. -- Lenny Kravitz
I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies. -- Dylan Moran
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. -- Edgard Varese
I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing. -- Rick James
I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music. -- Aaron Zigman
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune. -- Robert McKee
I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything. -- Juicy J
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne
I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music. -- Cheyenne Kimball

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