
“This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.”
Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad
"The Colonel's Tiger", Man-Kzin Wars VII, Baen, 1995, p. 77. ISBN 0-671-87670-8.
“This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.”
Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now?”
To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!
The Heretic (1968)
“It is only in the last five hundred years that music has become a spectator activity”
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
Context: It is only in the last five hundred years that music has become a spectator activity—the thought of a musical concert in which a class of "experts" performed for an appreciative audience was virtually unkown throughout our history as a species. And it has only been in the last hundred years or so that the ties between musical sound and human movement have been minimized.
“The PLAYSTATION3 will retail for Five-Hundred-Ninety-Nine US Dollars.”
“I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?”