Future Music Quotes

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.

Future is gonna be remembered forever. Future just has so much quality music.

I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.

I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.

If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.

Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.

It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection.

Hopefully the music of the future will not be all electronic. There is a place for it if it is used sparingly.

Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be the future to go run away into the recording studio. How can we take that kind of complexity and richness and make it possible for people to touch it and play it live. That's what hyperinstruments are.

I think the music that's called 'future stuff' is the soundtrack to the few people who have the nerve and the courage to continue, to go to the end of the line and not be deterred.