Popular Music Quotes: top 64 famous quotes about Popular Music

Popular Music Quotes & Sayings

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Patrick used to be popular, until Sam bought him some good music. — Stephen Chbosky

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music. — Frank Fairfield

The Mozart Effect comes to mind: the popular idea that listening to classical music makes students better at math. — John Medina

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

The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Popular music sucks so bad right now. — Kristin Hersh

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

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

I want to produce the best popular music I can. — Theophilus London

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

I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music. — Sufjan Stevens

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. — Madeleine Peyroux

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid. — Doseone

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

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

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time. — Larry Coryell

Who was it had said when you fall in love all the popular songs suddenly seemed to mean something. — Dolores Hitchens

Popular music is a microcosm of the culture, Eliza. It reflects the mentality of the population. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

[T]he best, truest popular music is one born of journeys and arrivals, of long odysseys and lightning epiphanies. — Gerri Hirshey

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

It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular. — Chick Corea

Music must lead people, don't you think?" asked Thies. "If it follows whatever the popular taste happens to be, then what's its value? — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff. — Rickie Lee Jones

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music. — Steven Morrissey

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

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. — James Fenton

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

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. — Martin Scorsese

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

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. — Jay-Z

Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music. — Ruben Blades

The Doors embodied - incarnated - a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times. — Jac Holzman

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

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

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself. — Todd Rundgren

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies ... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this. — Warren Zevon

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air. — Ozzy Osbourne

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve. — The Kinks

If you don't know the blues ... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. — Keith Richards

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes. — L.A. Reid

reality has too many heads — Bob Dylan

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

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

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

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular. — Wanda Jackson

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music. — Lester Bangs

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody. — Theophilus London

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. — John Oates

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

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land. — Miranda Lambert

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind. — Kenneth Edmonds

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. — John Lennon

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

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. — Billy Joel

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

Our popular music talks constantly about love, and yet divorce rates skyrocket. — Billy Graham

Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it. — Irving Berlin

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

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular. — J. Tillman

The world's most famous and popular language is music. — Psy

All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us. — Tod Machover

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

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

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it. — John Corigliano