Ray Davies Quotes

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

It seems that with other kind of music, they are looking for the next big thing, but with country music, they might be looking for that, but they also want to have that warm blanket that helped them through that relationship or that singer they have always loved.

Music has changed, but there will always be a demand for amazing music.

Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.

I don't want people buying my records for this summer's hit. I want people buying them because they're interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

I got my influences from '70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released 'Money,' it wouldn't even get played.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

We're all big fans of pop music; this is definitely the direction we've always wanted to head in.

People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.

Future is gonna be remembered forever. Future just has so much quality music.

I guess if you make quality music then it has a longevity and it will find its place.

I think for music, it's global. You have a song, it sounds good, everybody likes it.

I don't like the way a lot of music is going these days. No one buys it.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.