Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's… — Shankar Mahadevan 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
Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be,… — Thurston Moore 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
Bill Withers, Van Morrison and Marvin Gaye are pioneers in popular music for the last century, and these are people who have… — Michael Kiwanuka 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
[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality… — Tony Bennett 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 think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first.… — Jason Isbell 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
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
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
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
Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge… — David B. Haight 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
“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
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
I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't… — Mark Rippetoe 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
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
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
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
I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a… — Eric Benet Copy Share Image
Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands… — Robert Plant 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
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
The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had…… — Humphrey Lyttelton Copy Share Image
My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight… — Donovan Copy Share Image
In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous… — Dinah Shore Copy Share Image
For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able… — Bill Dixon Copy Share Image
Just as I have broken the monopoly of film music as being synonymous with popular music in our country, I want to… — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn't going… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You… — Mick Jagger 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
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![“[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.” quote by Leonard Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/leonard-cohen-448_complexes_europe-has-this-tradition-of-self-revela_2070739.jpg)
