Popular Music Quotes - Page 5

• I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

  Frank Fairfield

  Song, Play, Obscure

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

  Doseone

  Law, Consistency, Concerned

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.

  Bob Dylan

  Children, Moon, Darkness

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

  David Bowie

  Real, World, Punk

  Source: theemptypage.wordpress.com

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• I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

  Shane MacGowan

  Play, Calling, Tradition

  Source: shanemacgowan.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. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Teenager, Interesting, Important

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the way we judge drugs. There's the ability to get a big audience because of these incredible, iconic, charismatic people. You can look at a number of issues - the challenge is to make sure you choose something that has all those issues. Popular music is like a mirror of culture, of who we are.

  Nick Broomfield

  Attitude, Thinking, Judging

  Source: thequietus.com

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