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
Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it. — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Bill Withers, Van Morrison and Marvin Gaye are pioneers in popular music for the last century, and these are people who have… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with… — Dave Haywood 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 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
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
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
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
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
“It was the afternoon in the city of Orlando, Florida. Amid the hustle and bustle, the cafe next door to a strip… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
“Not all music should be functional. Any culture, and all cultural levels, need music that challenges conventions and pushes the boundaries. To… — Brian A. Wren Copy Share Image
Often, I could not find the range of emotions in classical music which I found in the The Rolling Stones and Hendrix.… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“WGHB started as a Clearwater, Florida radio station in 1925. By 1927, its call letters changed to WFLA and it moved to… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One 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
Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
“The very first hit factory was T.B. Harms, a Tin Pan Alley publishing company overseen by Max Dreyfus. With staff writers like… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land. — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away. — Kelela Copy Share Image
I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music. — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head. — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet. — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
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