Quotes about Old Music

I don't use old music. Votes: 1

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today. Votes: 1

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie. Votes: 1

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it. Votes: 1

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything. Votes: 1

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. Votes: 1

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence. Votes: 1

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I like the old '90s music. Votes: 0

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business. Votes: 0

Country music is about new love and it's about old love. Votes: 0

I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old. Votes: 0

I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music. Votes: 0

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll. Votes: 0

Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great. Votes: 0

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West. Votes: 0

I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns. Votes: 0

You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music. Votes: 0

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old. Votes: 0

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old. Votes: 0

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music Votes: 0

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. Votes: 0

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. Votes: 0

Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. Votes: 0

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern. Votes: 0

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old. Votes: 0

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school. Votes: 0

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old. Votes: 0

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old. Votes: 0

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. Votes: 0

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. Votes: 0

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock. Votes: 0

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old. Votes: 0

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that. Votes: 0

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15. Votes: 0

I listen to a lot of different kind of music. A lot of weird-ass music, like weird-ass, old Portishead. Votes: 0

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old. Votes: 0

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old. Votes: 0

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it. Votes: 0

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music. Votes: 0

I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations. Votes: 0

Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music. Votes: 0

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto. Votes: 0

Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is. Votes: 0

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. Votes: 0

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music. Votes: 0

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. Votes: 0

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously. Votes: 0

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' Votes: 0

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes. Votes: 0

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. Votes: 0

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones. Votes: 0

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead Votes: 0

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same. Votes: 0

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well. Votes: 0

My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old. Votes: 0

I got into music because my Dad used to tell everyone I had the voice of an angel when I was two-years-old. Votes: 0

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity. Votes: 0

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. Votes: 0

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old. Votes: 0

the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest. Votes: 0

Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things. Votes: 0

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Votes: 0

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human. Votes: 0

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically. Votes: 0

A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones. Votes: 0

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes. Votes: 0

I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important. Votes: 0

I would probably keep it old school with The Isley Brothers. Their music relaxes me and I can listen to it all day. Votes: 0

What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret. Votes: 0

The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals. Votes: 0

I was 35 years old and not in the best of shape. I spent many late nights playing music, drinking beer, and eating Taco Bell. Votes: 0

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time? Votes: 0

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since. Votes: 0

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste. Votes: 0

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music. Votes: 0

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake. Votes: 0

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track. Votes: 0

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Votes: 0

It's old white ladies, old black ladies, old black men, who don't even listen. Everyone else, everyone who understands, likes Snoop Dogg. They like my music. Votes: 0

The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication." Votes: 0

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. Votes: 0

Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music. Votes: 0

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites. Votes: 0

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that. Votes: 0

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music. Votes: 0

I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life. Votes: 0

My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music. Votes: 0

I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all. Votes: 0

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music. Votes: 0

I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power. Votes: 0

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old. Votes: 0

I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music. Votes: 0

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry. Votes: 0

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness. Votes: 0

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness. Votes: 0

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. Votes: 0

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too. Votes: 0

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could. Votes: 0

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness. Votes: 0

I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay. Votes: 0

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too. Votes: 0

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work. Votes: 0

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public? Votes: 0

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music. Votes: 0

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old. Votes: 0

I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old. Votes: 0

I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies. Votes: 0

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. Votes: 0

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing. Votes: 0

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music. Votes: 0

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune. Votes: 0

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything. Votes: 0

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. Votes: 0

I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music. Votes: 0