Quotes About History

I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet and stuff like that.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

The southerner talks music.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.