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
In the West, film music is completely different and independent from their popular music. The two industries are separate and don't interfere… — Amit Trivedi 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I try to create something that draws you in without overthinking it. Something that resonates with you automatically that you don't have… — Frank Dukes Copy Share Image
People like Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Antonio Aguilar, Pedro Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez - these are probably all names that many people don't… — Anthony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also… — Stephen Mallinder 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“...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
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music. — Greil Marcus 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
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 have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music. — Ludovico Einaudi 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
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
There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies. — Robert Kardashian 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
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes. — Ludovico Einaudi 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
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
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
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