Trevor Horn Quotes

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.

Music is forever changing.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

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.

Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.

Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

I think music changes and it evolves.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.

Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.