Quotes About Popularity

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

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

I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I intend to put them on the charts.