A Quote by Mark Lanegan
Most of the music I'm into wasn't popular when it was being made.
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The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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 feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.
For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.
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 to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music 'root music.'
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
Film music is always given a step-motherly treatment though it is the most popular form of music.
Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.
It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears.
I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
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