Quotes About Contemporary

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

What is pop music? It's not a genre. It's just the music that is popular at a given point in time.

Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture.

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world.

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.

I don't think anybody does contemporary R&B albums better than me.

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.

I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.