Paul Morley Quotes About Pop Music

• Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

  Paul Morley

  Enchantment, Moral, Deceitful

• Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.

  Paul Morley

  Ideas, Energy, Helping

• I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.

  Paul Morley

  Dream, Thinking, People

• Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.

  Paul Morley

  Stars, Stupid, Desire

• Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

  Paul Morley

  Play, People, Desire

• If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.

  Paul Morley

  Self, People, Desire

• Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

  Paul Morley

  Rocks, Novelty, Rock Music

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