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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.
Keith Richards

Music, Rock, Guitar

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
Billy Joel

Music, Today, American

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
Martin Scorsese

Life, Music, Popular

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
Robert Plant

Music, Great, Same

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

Music, Good, Popular

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
Brian Eno

Music, Before, Whether

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.
Billy Joel

Music, Time, Successful

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

Music, Changes, Popular

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

Music, Country, Wants

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
Scott Weiland

Music, Experience, Today

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

Music, Teen, Long

Popular music sucks so bad right now.
Kristin Hersh

Music, Bad, Popular

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

Music, History, Able

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.
Tommy Shaw

Music, Lazy, Down

Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
Jon Landau

Music, End, Black

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

Music, Mind, Mean

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
Rickie Lee Jones

Music, Stuff, Popular

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
David Johansen

Music, Rock, Understand

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.
Lionel Richie

Music, Country, Growing

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

Music, Mind, Keep

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.
Thurston Moore

Music, Again, Rather

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
Lara St. John

Life, Music, Passion

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

Music, Country, Few

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.
Madeleine Peyroux

Music, Try, Wonderful

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
Skitch Henderson

Music, Writing, Stars

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.
L.A. Reid

Music, Whether, Changes

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

Music, Television, Popular

Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.
Dave Haywood

Music, Great, Cool

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.
Dinah Shore

Music, Time, Important

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.
Tom Wopat

Music, Education, Experience

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