quotes about Popular Music
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Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
-- Babyface -
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.
-- Elton John -
I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.
-- Lester Bangs -
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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
-- Martin Scorsese -
I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.
-- Paz de la HuertaSource : HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.
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Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
-- Rickie Lee Jones -
I want to produce the best popular music I can.
-- Theophilus LondonSource : "Theophilus London, Hip-Hop’s Newest Name (and What a Name!)". Interview with Michael Pollock, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 5, 2011.
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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.
-- Warren Zevon -
I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.
-- DoseoneSource : Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.
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I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.
-- Eric BenetSource : "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.
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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.
-- Larry Coryell -