Popular music Quotes

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

“One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.”

“Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.”

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

“Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.”

“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.”

“Our popular music talks constantly about love, and yet divorce rates skyrocket.”

“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?”

“The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.”