Contemporary Quotes

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.

There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

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.

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.