You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I was super-obsessed with cover videos. When I was, like, 10, I would come home from school and watch them from 4… — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I'm a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz - Glenn Fredly,… — Joe Taslim Copy Share Image
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
“The government forbade the broadcast of this “decadent bourgeois music,” and Li Guyi, the first mainland singer to imitate Teresa Teng’s style,… — Xiaobo Liu Copy Share Image
“Despite the promises of utopian hedonism, many youth and middle-aged adults quickly enticed by these did not escape from their addictions easily,… — Philip Alajajian Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about 'Idol' besides the drama, the backstories, and the crazy arrangements on popular songs is the… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
