Quotes on Popular Music

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

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

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?