Kevin Jonas Quotes

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.

Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

Pop music has progressed.

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.

MTV ruined music for us.

Twenty-five years has been a good run. Boy bands like Boyzone don't get to last this long, usually.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

Well, rock used to be the only game in town in terms of radio and what the kids listen to. Now I think there was a big hip-hop takeover, and pop music, it became mechanical and computer-y.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an estimated factor of ten.

Our audience isn't One Direction, Katy Perry, Rihanna fans.

You get x amount of years at the top… boybands are like buses - there's always another one coming along.

Music industry is like fashion. Things keep coming, things keep going, trends keep changing.

I think Spotify really does help. If you're going with the evolution of music these days, it's only becoming more and more popular and I don't think it's something to be shunned.

I've learned that things change. The whole boy band thing almost turned into a stock market crash.

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.