Peter Warlock Quotes

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

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.

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.

You need to put yourself in the way of the music that stood the test of time. You're doing yourself an incredible disservice not be interested in the width and breadth of it.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

What I like about Americans is if it's good music, that's the only thing that matters.

I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.

Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.

I always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound design. But if your music is good, you'll always be able to listen to it, even in 20 or 50 years.

When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should play the old with the new, 24/7, 365 days a year. A lot of these program directors are just jiving around and not playing all the good music for the people.

A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.