Twentieth Century Music Quotes

#1. I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

Bing Crosby

#2. Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

Leonard Bernstein

#3. Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. My name is Monica, and I am not submissive. I stand six feet tall in heels. I am descended from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. I can sing like an angel, and growl like a lion. I am not owned. I am music.

C.D. Reiss

#5. I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

Janet Jackson

#6. Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. I don't get tripped up in technology. I use technology as a tool. 'Oldboy' we shot Two Pro 35mm. For 'Da Blood of Jesus,' we shot digitally. We shot the new Sony F55. It's a 4K camera.

Spike Lee

#8. The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo

#9. Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

Jerome Kern

#10. Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.

Kingsley Amis

#11. There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

Helen Reddy

#12. I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.

Pete Seeger

#13. My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.

Mimi Kennedy

#14. When we spend some time each day in non-doing, resting in awareness, observing the flow of the breath and the activity of our mind and body without getting caught up in that activity, we are cultivating calmness and mindfulness hand in hand.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#15. A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

William Jennings Bryan

#16. I bowled a 129. It's like- It was like the Special Olympics.

Barack Obama

#17. The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

Quentin Crisp