Quotes About Music

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

The great countercultural movement that we all know from the mid-1960s was epitomised by popular music. But within a few years another shift happened: the birth of alternative theatre.

In the West, film music is completely different and independent from their popular music. The two industries are separate and don't interfere much.

My knowledge of popular music more or less ends in 1972.

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

I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I'm saying? Like, c'mon.

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

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.

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

When K. Vishwanath made the film 'Shankarabharanam,' he wanted to bring back Carnatic classical music to mainstream. It's popularity was waning in those days.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes.

When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.

Differences' is the biggest song in my career. It beat 'Pony,' it beat 'So Anxious' and 'None of Ur Friends Business' as far as popularity and spins.

We live in an era of social media. We care more about looks, popularity and followers than about real music. And I wanted to get away from that.

It is difficult to understand the fortunes of an instrument. There was music written for the guitar until the mid-19th century. Then the instrument declined in popularity.

It's not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.

Sometimes music can really seem like a popularity contest with beautiful people.

Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

In summer, I like to sit and compose on the porch, where I can see people come and go.

I make these songs for me. That's the truth. I make them because that's what I want to hear. Long before you ever hear it, believe that I'm in a Porsche with the top off listening to it.

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.