Words matter. These are the best Old Music Quotes from famous people such as Adrian Younge, Richard Bonynge, Christina Aguilera, Chelsea Leyland, Taj Mahal, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
People don’t realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don’t realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They’re hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.
I like digging around. I’m a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early ’50s in Paris and Brussels. You could pick up some incredible and often valuable music for almost nothing back then.
You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that’s why that old music feels so good to me.
I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the ’90s and the music from that time, and I love punk music. I’m also a fan of mixing vintage with some high fashion, which links back to my musical taste because I tend to mix old music with newer songs.
Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That’s very old.
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
I listen to all kinds of music – new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
Even though we try not to be nostalgic about drawing from old music, I’m always inspired by things like old Cole Porter songs or the words in the Gershwin songs or even Stephen Sondheim, where there’s a real craft to them but it isn’t only that you’re hearing the words it’s that it links so well with the music.
My brother’s 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
I have no idea about the state of rap. I don’t pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.
I really like the grittiness of early Amon Tobin – I’m a huge fan of his old music, and I tried to borrow from it, not emulate it. I don’t love my own original work.
I don’t listen to my old music of Vanity’s unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
Classic rock, psychedelic rock – I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.
Old music is the same as new music – it’s just a different way of delivering it.
Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
It’s been really interesting watching people’s reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there’s a camera in front of their face.
As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound old.
The thing with me is, about that – about rock and all that – years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
There is a section of people who love fast food kind of music but there is also a sizable number of people who love the good old music of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.
