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• There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Differences, People, Mind

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• 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

  Zeppelins, Beats, Sam Cooke

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• People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.

  Campbell McGrath

  School, Years, People

  "Campbell McGrath on Poetry, Walt Whitman and Schaefer Beer" by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. March 01, 2008.

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• I would consider my music like, pop-R&B. So it can reach a lot of people. Pop is popular music. That's what it stands for. So I'm just making music that I know that I like, I know other people will like, and my fans will like.

  Justin Bieber

  People, Fans, Pops

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• 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 Huerta

  Periods, Certain, Feels

  HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.

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• Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

  Greil Marcus

  Singers, Modern, Vans

  "When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison". Book by Greil Marcus, 2010.

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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

  Music Is, Happened, Supposed To Be

  "My Lunch with Warren Zevon" by David Bowman, Salon.com, March 17, 2000.

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• For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and when I've finished I go into my room and I have many many records - jazz, classical and popular music. And I have this all at my disposal. I don't have to get a composer.

  Woody Allen

  Fun, Records, Rooms

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.

  Humphrey Lyttelton

  Partnership, Lennon, Music Is

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• Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

  Steven Morrissey

  Ashes, Way, Music Is

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• 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

  Successful, Demand, Music Is

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• 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

  Magic, Kind, Form

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

  James Fenton

  Rap, Lows, Cases

  "It ain't necessarily so" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2002.

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• 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

  Halloween, Frozen, World

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• Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

  Moby

  Bowie, Knows

  "David Bowie: Back in the spotlight, still refusing to play along" by Andrew Harrison, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2016.

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• 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

  People, Entertainment, Opinion

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• Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

  Martin Scorsese

  Soundtracks

  "Martin Scorsese: '3D is liberating. Every shot is rethinking cinema'". Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2010.

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• Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

  Conor Oberst

  World, Speed, Individual

  Source: www.ew.com

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• In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. These songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. So gradually they said well let's call it folk music.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Art, Hymns

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Music, Important, Ravel

  "Music (For A Film): Jonny Greenwood Of Radiohead Interviewed". Interview with Chris Woolfrey, thequietus.com. February 18, 2014.

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• That seems like one of the differences in expectations of "serious" and "popular" music that you can actually depend on the liner notes to explain yourself? Yeah. Whereas in popular music you depend on photo shoots. A hardcore band who looked like Duran Duran would have to depend upon those liner notes.

  Stephin Merritt

  Expectations, Serious, Hardcore

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.

  Amjad Ali Khan

  Differences, Essentials, Want

  "Indian Legend Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and Sons Perform in NYC" by Jim Luce, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Art, Cutting, Class

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• It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

  Holly Near

  Music, Long, Singing

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• The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

  Pete Seeger

  Tangled, Together, World

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 3, 2008.

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