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• Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Character, Self

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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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• Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

  Steve Earle

  People, Bob, Genius

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent. A strong spirit transcends rules,' Prince once said - and nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his band, and all who loved him.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Prayer, Artist

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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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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• Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

  Andrea Bocelli

  People, Curiosity, Noses

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.

  Eric Benet

  Dope, Radio, Turns

  "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.

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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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• It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Air, Magic, Sixty

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.

  Moby

  Successful, Being Real, Enemy

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• ....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience the music, but also in the sense that the music is true to the historical experience, that the music reflects the historical experience. It is the spiritual expression of the historical experience of the Afro-Jamaican.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Spiritual, Expression, Jamaica

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• I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that I heard a lot of when I was a teenager," "I think at a certain point it dawned on me that myself playing this music wasn't very convincing. It was more convincing when we played music that came from our own stock of tradition. ... I certainly feel a lot more comfortable playing so-called Celtic music.

  John Renbourn

  Teenager, Thinking, Play

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• Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

  Larry Coryell

  Able, Jazz

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• 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, Writing, Important

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• The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

  Duke Ellington

  Musician, Problem, Made

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• Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Art, Character, Greatness

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• It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became a magnet for the great camera artists of the world, a target for the jaded, lately hostile eyes of people who had hardly known that popular music existed.

  Brian Epstein

  Eye, Artist, People

  Brian Epstein (2011). “A Cellarful of Noise”, p.72, Souvenir Press

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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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• After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman into a pseudo-hobo Woody Guthrie), Dylan put out two acoustic albums that forever changed popular music.

  Jay Michaelson

  Class, Two, Voice

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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