Quotes About Industry

I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.

I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an estimated factor of ten.

With a lot of pop music, they just have one song and a good beat, but there's not necessarily that much talent.

Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.

In the early 90s, I did not want to get stuck in pop music.

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

I don't think I'll ever become a pop star.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

I always looked at 'All In' with the perspective that it's about the present and future of the industry and not really about cheap pops, even though I'm sure they'll be plenty of those on the show.

My pops got his own coffee company. My pop distributes coffee.

The perception that if you're not on 'Top Of The Pops' you're dead and buried is a good one for pop music, because 'TOTP' is a catalyst or barometer for pop success.

The thing with the film industry is if you become popular in one kind of role, you keep getting cast in the same thing.

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.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

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.

I am genuinely happy that other actors are entering the industry and gaining popularity. There are enough opportunities in the business for everybody.

I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.

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

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