Top 1200 Popular Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

Whether or not punk is the flavor of the month is not important for us. Bad Religion has been popular through many different climates. When heavy metal was popular, when new wave was popular, Bad Religion was still there underneath the mainstream selling more and more records.

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 musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like.

I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.

I do like people who are popular across the years and stuff like that, but I'm not a big pop music fan. I don't listen to the radio unless it's KCRW, like Booka Shade. Yeah, like weird music is what I'm really into right now. But I like anything really. There's just so much. I buy new music almost every day, so there's so much coming in that I don't even have time to listen to something more that twice.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.

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 stands for. So I'm just making music that I know that I like, I know other people will like, and my fans will like.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

I think there's a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally honest.

I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do.

All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

I know the WWE is popular, but it is extremely popular here in the Middle East and the U.A.E.

The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

It's true that John Bolton would not win the most popular ambassador award at the U.N., but being popular shouldn't be the priority.

I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.

I never wanted to do music to get girls, right, to get popular, or anything like that. I really love music and I want to make it better the best I can. I can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it. So I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

If you are posting your music on YouTube, maybe start with a popular cover done in a unique way.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed.

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.

Often, I could not find the range of emotions in classical music which I found in the The Rolling Stones and Hendrix. Listening to Bach, I found a deep spirituality and felt elevated above the human level. Yet the feeling and emotions attached to popular music speak to us far more personally, and I couldn't leave that behind.

It's a lot more interesting to dig into the popular music from where I'm from than adhere to some kind of standardized global pop.

Tough decisions are never popular to make and even less popular to force upon the U.N.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings.

We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.

I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.

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, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether it's filtered through America or whatever - African-American. But I still think there's something in that roots music that's very, very African, and I think that's what unites people.

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

Richard Donner made great movies. Seminal movies. The Academy, though, and we have to be careful here, should recognize popular films. Popular films are what make it all work. There was a time when popular movies were commercial movies, and they were good movies, and they had to be good movies. There was no segregation between good independent films and popular movies.

Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

I think as this generation of electronic musicians goes on, popular electronic music will be more and more accepted. It's gonna get less confusing. You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.