Popular Music Quotes
58 Popular Music quotes by 55 unique authors
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
— David Byrne
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Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.
— Steven Morrissey
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock…
— George Steiner
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There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music…
— Unknown Author
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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
— Bonnie Raitt
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Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream…
— Thurston Moore
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What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life,…
— Lara St. John
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Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic…
— Scott Weiland
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We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals
— Tommy Shaw
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Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.
— Tipper Gore
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The idea that rhythm is intrinsically human — not just primitive — that we all have hearts that beat at a steady rate and don't…
— Michael Torke
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Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened…
— Bill Dixon
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There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
— Miranda Lambert
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Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
— Renee Fleming
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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
— John Philip Sousa
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Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off,…
— Elton John
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The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock…
— Tom Wopat
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Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which…
— Skitch Henderson
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We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk…
— Anatoly Berezovoy
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Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge through uplifting literature;…
— David B. Haight
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Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.
— Steven Morrissey
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It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became a magnet for…
— Brian Epstein
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Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
— Babyface
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Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your…
— Ian Shoales
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