Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. — Renee Fleming 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
This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes. — Ludovico Einaudi 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
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind. — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period. — Paz de la Huerta Copy Share Image
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case… — James Fenton 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
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
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 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
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
After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
His belief in the power of music to convey ideas - not just entertain - has filtered down to musicians in every… — Robert Hilburn 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
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
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
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
“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'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
“It is not simply as release or play, in other words, that popular music saves society from its routine murders; it is… — Timothy Brennan 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
“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
“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
“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
I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music. — Ludovico Einaudi 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
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat… — L.A. Reid 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
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