The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies. — Robert Kardashian Copy Share Image
This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa 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
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
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
When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I've only written 30 songs or something. Dylan's written over 500 songs. There's no comparison. He's the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music.… — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see.… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the… — Eef Barzelay Copy Share Image
I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and popular music. It's… — Tiny Tim Copy Share Image
It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I think there's a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings. — Frankie Ballard Copy Share Image
Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody. — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians. — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
It just takes that one artist to take the chance to create the next wave of popular music. — Sky Blu Copy Share Image
I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know? — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
It's a lot more interesting to dig into the popular music from where I'm from than adhere to some kind of standardized… — Rosalia Copy Share Image
The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
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