Traditional Music Quotes

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.