Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
In the West, film music is completely different and independent from their popular music. The two industries are separate and don't interfere… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We love popular music and there has to be a certain amount of popularity in what you do, or you're gone. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Popular music is a microcosm of the culture, Eliza. It reflects the mentality of the population.” — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Amplification of guitars revolutionized the popular music scene. Youngsters look for quick fame and big money with amplified guitars and working with… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
The first half of 'Book Reports' deals with the history of popular music and rock criticism. When I hooked all those historical… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first.… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab,… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“The tribal belonging, the sexual association, the sense of party – these are what popular music offer, and they have always been… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think… — Roger Meddows Taylor Copy Share Image
That seems like one of the differences in expectations of "serious" and "popular" music that you can actually depend on the liner… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“Free-form jigging, communal shapes in the air; Dancing was easy!...YMCA! YMCA! Arms in the air, mimicking the letters - what a marvelous… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Popular music of the last 50 years has failed to keep in step with advances in musical theater, namely Stephen Sondheim. But… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
“The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“this “right to marry” argument has enormous contemporary cultural traction in the West, which requires explanation if it is indeed obviously worthless.… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
“But where should he begin? - Well, then, the trouble with the English was their: Their: In a word, Gibreel solemnly pronounced,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“ Dreams and coffee and sunrises make up the rhythms of the road. Music is a part of it, too: the popular… — Kenn Kaufman Copy Share Image
“If our cultural lives are sick, it is likely to be an impediment to our spiritual lives. Much popular culture promotes a… — Kenneth A. Myers Copy Share Image
“It was to be the longest flight I had ever made in my young life and one of the most interesting. Having… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
“Movements in literature were not caricatures - in the sense that they actually functioned as an ideology in politics does. As now… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“There is however, one reason why the arts so rarely accept a mission that IS within the power of the Church to… — Aidan Nichols O.P Copy Share Image
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