Traditional Music Quotes

• Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Country, Musician, Realizing

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• I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

  George Crumb

  Country, People, Culture

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• I like traditional music. I listen to a lot of it. There is no particular reason to present these recordings. I love what I do so I find ways to keep doing what I love. Music is certainly not all that interests me. I hear things my own way and I present them. Sound is inspiring and I can be quite obssessive with certain sounds.

  Alan Bishop

  Sound, Way, Music Love

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• First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Firsts, Musician, Looks

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• Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

  Tom Chapin

  Tradition, Mines, Traditional

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• I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

  PJ Harvey

  Growing Up, Communication, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. February 15, 2011.

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• I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

  John Spiers

  Play, Definitions, Heard

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

  Brian Eno

  Space, Ephemeral, Painting

  "Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

  Compay Segundo

  Play, Age, Traditional

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• The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.

  Jay Michaelson

  Song, Water, Phases

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.

  John Spiers

  People, Difficult, Music Is

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• My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

  Colin Farrell

  Song, Community, Dublin

  "Colin Farrell interview" by Horatia Harrod, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 29, 2010.

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• I love the traditional music of all our islands - Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales , but I suppose I'm viewed pretty much as an English songwriter and I'm going to try and do an English album, and I wouldn't be ashamed or embarrassed to do Scarborough Fair and Spencer the Rover and stuff like that.

  Ralph McTell

  Islands, Scotland, Trying

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• Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Kind, Scottish, Instinct

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• Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer [wrt lack of successful "conscious" music]... 'Traditional' music was brand new at one time... When you hear R&B today, do you believe it?

  Vernon Reid

  Believe, Successful, Ozone

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• Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

  Compay Segundo

  Rocks, Europe, Grandparent

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• Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.

  Kate Bush

  Mother, Brother, Playing Music

  "The Great Lost Kate Bush Interview". Interview with Paul Iorio, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1985.

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• I found out about college radio and this whole noise genre blew me away. When I saw that guys could just get up there and have no traditional music ability and be in a band, it was really appealing to me.

  Girl Talk

  College, Guy, Band

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Here it is: our collaboration with Project Spark . Instead of a traditional music video for GUILTY ALL THE SAME (feat. Rakim), we are giving you this as a starting line for you guys to create and share. This is the first interactive, remixable game. We look forward to seeing what you make with it.

  Joe

  Games, Giving, Guy

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• I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Past, Years, Has Beens

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