Quotes About Music

A popular number from the movie Pedda Pedda' has become an instant hit and the audience is loving it.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular.

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

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.

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.

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

Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.

I try to create something that draws you in without overthinking it. Something that resonates with you automatically that you don't have to think about. That's what the best pop is about: Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Nirvana - these guys made some of the most authentic and popular music.

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

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

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

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.