Words matter. These are the best Traditional Music Quotes from famous people such as Brian Eno, Colin Farrell, Evelyn Glennie, Ciaran Hinds, Pierre Schaeffer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.
My Dublin wasn’t the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn’t really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
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.
The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it’s because of my age.
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
I’d like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I’ve been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
I didn’t know folk music growing up, no. It’s something I’ve come to study, really, because I think there’s so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
