Traditional Music Quotes

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.
Brian Eno

Music, Time, Once

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
Evelyn Glennie

Music, Apart, Instincts

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.
Doc Watson

Music, Play, Whatever

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
Evelyn Glennie

Music, Experience, Country

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
Colin Farrell

Music, History, Place

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.
P. J. Harvey

Music, Study, Sense

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.
George Crumb

Music, Interest, Countries

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.
Nobuo Uematsu

Music, Past, Few

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
Compay Segundo

Music, Age, Play

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.
Compay Segundo

Music, Rock, Thought

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.
Pierre Schaeffer

Music, Forgetting, Started

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.
Ciaran Hinds

Music, Irish, Feet

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.
Tom Chapin

Music, Mine, Tradition

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