“I would say that we're still contemporary but we use elements of blended, which has some elements of traditional music.”
Craig Castleberry
“Apart from these broader cultural influences which contribute to the shaping of our contemporary musical psyche, we also have to take into account the rather bewildering legacy of the earlier twentieth-century composers in the matter of compositional technique and procedure.”
George Crumb
“What I simply did as a contemporary weaver is work to revive silks with the traditional skills that many women in Laos still have.”
Carol Cassidy
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
William Faulkner
“The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.”
Spiro T. Agnew
“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.”
Sir Walter Scott
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”
Christopher Lasch
