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If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries. -- George Crumb
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form. -- Russell Smith
Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history. -- Christopher Bollen
I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me. -- John Darnielle
I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds. -- Bruce Pavitt
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time. -- Emilie Autumn
I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist. -- Merry Clayton
I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist. -- Merry Clayton
When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic. -- Eric Whitacre
The Fiesta Tour McDonald's exhibit is a one-of-a-kind compilation of items and great moments in Latin music history. Every item has a unique story, including the outfit which I wore during the 2008 Premios Juventud awards. -- Thalia
I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or that it will do any particular thing. This listener is just open to listening. -- Missy Mazzoli
Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be. -- Pharoahe Monch
Last night I snuck an orchestra into the elevator at my apartment. We made elevator music history until Marvin got his oboe caught in the door and Mrs. Hoffstead started singing "Yes We Have No Bananas Today" in the hall so loud the police were called in from Equador. -- Jarod Kintz
I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a lot of them were mafia owned. And so there was almost an unspoken kind of mafia sponsorship, which is just a very interesting part of that area's music history. -- John Lloyd Young
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know? -- Gotye
I don't know anything about the history of music. -- Sia Furler
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. -- Gavin Bryars
The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music. -- Ryan Tedder
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. -- Renee Fleming
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. -- Steve Lacy
Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options. -- Isaac Brock
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. -- Colin Farrell
I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me. -- Eddi Reader
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. -- Dave Grohl
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition. -- Gracie Gold
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. -- Brian Eno
I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it. -- Tim Rice
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation. -- Tom Stoppard
Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music. -- Christian Scott
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from. -- Ricky Skaggs
Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry. -- Marshall Brickman
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country. -- Jackson Browne
Music wasn't history class; I didn't need to memorize a thousand dates and names. -- Leila Sales
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal. -- Milan Kundera
I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music. -- Jimmy Pardo
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard. -- Archibald MacLeish
There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history. -- Terry Bozzio
There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry. -- Charlemagne Palestine
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music. -- Greil Marcus
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music. -- T Bone Burnett
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. -- Pete Seeger
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. -- Debbie Allen
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music. -- Steven Morrissey
I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people. -- Dave Grohl
I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist. -- Kiki Smith
History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music. -- Michael P. Naughton
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion. -- Ricky Jay
The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats. -- Frank Fairfield
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. -- Loretta Lynn
Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to. -- Steve Earle
I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music -- Smokey Robinson
I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music. -- Smokey Robinson
People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song. -- Brandi Carlile
I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet and stuff like that. -- Lil B
If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn. -- Edgar Cayce
The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had"¦ his photocopier"¦ -- Humphrey Lyttelton
In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on. -- Brian Michael Bendis
It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different. -- David
I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow. -- Tim Matheson
I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me. -- Billy Joel
The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound. -- Jennifer Lopez
Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now. -- Jol Dantzig
Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. -- John Darnielle
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods. -- Robert Schumann
I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts. -- Stephen Lang

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