My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb… — David Grubbs 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“...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
Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the… — Nick Broomfield 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
Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent.… — Barack Obama 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
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
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
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
Popular music is like a big party, and it’s a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while,… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a… — George Alec Effinger 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
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
It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became… — Brian Epstein 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
