Quotes about Popular Music

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet. Votes: 3

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head. Votes: 3

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land. Votes: 3

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. Votes: 3

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Popular music sucks so bad right now. Votes: 2

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. Votes: 2

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music. Votes: 2

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world. Votes: 2

[Popular music]is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!" Votes: 2

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music. Votes: 2

People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school. Votes: 2

I would consider my music like, pop-R&B. So it can reach a lot of people. Pop is popular music. That's what it stands for. So I'm just making music that I know that I like, I know other people will like, and my fans will like. Votes: 2

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud. Votes: 2

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark. Votes: 2

For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and when I've finished I go into my room and I have many many records - jazz, classical and popular music. And I have this all at my disposal. I don't have to get a composer. Votes: 2

Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20th-century folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must have sung a Gershwin song without having any idea who wrote it). Votes: 2

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. Votes: 1

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff. Votes: 1

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music. Votes: 1

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist. Votes: 1

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. Votes: 1

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes. Votes: 1

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music. Votes: 1

It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well. Votes: 1

The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity. Votes: 1

I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music. Votes: 1

I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music. Votes: 1

I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you. Votes: 1

I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college. Votes: 1

The world's most famous and popular language is music. Votes: 0

I want to produce the best popular music I can. Votes: 0

Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it. Votes: 0

I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music. Votes: 0

Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music. Votes: 0

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music. Votes: 0

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different. Votes: 0

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals. Votes: 0

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind. Votes: 0

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes. Votes: 0

If you are posting your music on YouTube, maybe start with a popular cover done in a unique way. Votes: 0

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular. Votes: 0

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music. Votes: 0

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. Votes: 0

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody. Votes: 0

The Doors embodied"”incarnated"”a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times. Votes: 0

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. Votes: 0

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid. Votes: 0

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period. Votes: 0

All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us. Votes: 0

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it. Votes: 0

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air. Votes: 0

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to. Votes: 0

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had"¦ his photocopier"¦ Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it. Votes: 0

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. Votes: 0

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song. Votes: 0

I like the type of music that can make my heart beat and the melody that makes me high but this type of music isn't popular in Korea. Votes: 0

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. Votes: 0

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like. Votes: 0

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community. Votes: 0

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0