Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid. — Doseone Copy Share Image
Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The… — Moby Copy Share Image
There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music,… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
…the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
“The consumer is constantly screaming "Give me what I want!", while inside they are really thinking "Inspire me", even if they aren't… — Jason Timothy Copy Share Image
I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that… — John Renbourn Copy Share Image
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“...indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing once the public… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
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,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
It's a great thing that the United States has given the rest of the world - no other country has given such… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I think Theodore Adorno was profoundly ignorant. I think even Adorno's fans think he was bad at understanding popular music. He thought… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
The idea that rhythm is intrinsically human — not just primitive — that we all have hearts that beat at a steady… — Michael Torke Copy Share Image
The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more… — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
Going into 'Da Vinci's Demons' I didn't know anything about renaissance music and going into 'Black Sails,' I didn't know about sea… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I have a varied collection of music on my phone. I like a lot of the popular music that has a really… — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music… — Skitch Henderson Copy Share Image
I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Popular music is not history, but it can be read historically, dialogically, and symptomatically to produce valuable evidence about change over time.… — George Lipsitz Copy Share Image
I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
The great countercultural movement that we all know from the mid-1960s was epitomised by popular music. But within a few years another… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this has… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
