A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
Great music is great music, period.
Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were havin...
I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, ...
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, ...
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music.
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
