Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

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

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

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

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

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

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

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

This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.

I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

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

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

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

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

Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

It's a lot more interesting to dig into the popular music from where I'm from than adhere to some kind of standardized global pop.

Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

I think there's a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally honest.

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

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

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

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.

I think Theodore Adorno was profoundly ignorant. I think even Adorno's fans think he was bad at understanding popular music. He thought it was all jazz.

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