“To me, this is very boring music—most of it. It has nothing happening. Nothing is sticking. They’re playing music perfectly with wonderful intonation and technique, but it’s dangerous for jazz itself. I do wish these people all the best.”
On Wynton Marsalis and the revival of traditional jazz
Prasad interview (1997)
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austrian composer and pianist 1932–2007Related quotes
“The New Age music: "gave the opportunity for untalented people to make very boring music."”
Vangelis (1943) Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music
2005
Steve Turner (1949) British writer
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 143
“I know nothing of music; I would not give a farthing for all the music in the universe.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Observations on Lord Orrery's Remarks on Life of Swift, Delany, (1754), p. 192.
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George Gershwin (1898–1937) American composer and pianist
"The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music (1933); reprinted in Gregory R. Suriano (ed.) Gershwin in His Time (New York: Gramercy, 1998) p. 97.
