Popular music Quote by Rickie Lee Jones Download Open image “Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.” — Rickie Lee Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Popular music Stuff
I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this has life again… — George Harrison 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
There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed… — Josh Tillman 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
I think mainstream music got its worst around 1998 when bands like Smashing Pumpkins with Adore, Marilyn Manson with Mechanical Animals and even PJ… — Marc Broude Copy Share Image
Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar. — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background. — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political.… — Rickie Lee Jones 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 particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am… — Beverly Cleary 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
The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the… — Leonard Cohen 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 alter. In… — Aidan Nichols O.P Copy Share Image
'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music. — Alice Ripley 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 scores, because… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I've only written 30 songs or something. Dylan's written over 500 songs. There's no comparison. He's the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll and popular music. — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio… — Conor Oberst 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 their kind,… — George Gershwin 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 extraordinary a… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
