"The future of music is not music," meaning: every evolutionary stage of popular music is called "noise" and "that's not music." This goes back at least to the

"The future of music is not music," meaning: every evolutionary stage of popular music is called "noise" and "that's not music." This goes back at least to the invention of the teenager in the Rock & Roll era, and it repeats at least once per generation. This doesn't mean that every kind of music you don't like is something cutting-edge that you just aren't down with yet, but it does sometimes.