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Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

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