Popular Music Quotes

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What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power.

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also felt was a responsibility.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.