We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We're the kind of band that can cross those lines.
I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music.
I love classical. I have a lot of, like, Bach and Mozart and stuff. Then you flip on over, and I've got, like, Kanye West and, you know, just a bunch of - I am very eclectic. I love every sort of music.
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.
I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like.
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.
PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.
All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.
I like the music from Drake. I like the music from PARTY. I like music from The Weeknd, Justin Bieber.
I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.
You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.
With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.
Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.
All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?
The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative. It's just good, strong, modern music.
In the beginning, I was so inspired by the music. I had the option to make something modern with classic undertones, but I wanted to make something that was exactly like that old sound.
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.
Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's 'in the air,' as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I'm actually playing in a collaborative band.
Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I'm not blowing my own trumpet here.
The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.
