Shankar Mahadevan Quotes

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didn't know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

It's important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.

When we started, there were no other distractions like the Internet and video games, so music was central to young people's lives.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

When you're riding with your mom, and you're a kid, you'd listen to 'Dear Mama' and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?

I hate to be general, but I rely on Andrew Keenan-Bolger for all things music. Every season, he releases a mixtape on his blog of the most incredible and current music. I download it instantly, and it gets me through the season and keeps me educated musically.

No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows... I started to see some very young people in the audience... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

Styles move too fast to be partial to anything. If it's funk, that's enough for me. I don't care how fast or slow it is. I got my grandkids up front rapping and doing the new thing. They're teaching each other, bringing us up to date.