#popular music

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

#being #canned #frozen #heard #lately

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

#being #demand #exports #finally #huge

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

#blues #comes #especially #even #i

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

#any #being #budget #carnegie #carnegie hall

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

#country #few #few things #giant #i

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

#before #called #combination #established #fairly

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

#album #artistic #artistic expression #down #experience

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

#country #country music #form #get #hear

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

— Renee Fleming

#been #cross #few #history #into

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

#companies #demise #gatekeepers #good #good thing