As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.
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 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.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
I liked to drive around, just playing music for everyone.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.
It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.
Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.
Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.
