Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
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 want to produce the best popular music I can.
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
Popular music sucks so bad right now.
Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.
Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.
The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.
The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
If our cultural lives are sick, it is likely to be an impediment to our spiritual lives. Much popular culture promotes a spirit of restlessness. That is likely to be an obstacle to prayer, to concerned reflection, and to attentiveness to the needs of...
When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.
I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the ...
