A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it. Votes: 0
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. Votes: 0
I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read. Votes: 0
I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed. Votes: 0
I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles. Votes: 0
Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.
Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father participated with him because my father was a musicologist and urged trained musicians to learn about "the vernacular."