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
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
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
Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away. — Kelela Copy Share Image
My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
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
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 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
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 idea that rhythm is intrinsically human — not just primitive — that we all have hearts that beat at a steady… — Michael Torke 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Free-form jigging, communal shapes in the air; Dancing was easy!...YMCA! YMCA! Arms in the air, mimicking the letters - what a marvelous… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most… — Anatoly Berezovoy Copy Share Image
We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now… — Stephen Mallinder 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Popular music is a microcosm of the culture, Eliza. It reflects the mentality of the population.” — Tiffanie DeBartolo 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
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
If you don't like this, we don't care - I think that's the essence of what popular music should be. — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other… — Keith Richards 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
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
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
