Joey Kramer Quotes

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

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

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

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.

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

Many pop songs seem to be more potent now than in their heyday.

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

What is pop music? It's not a genre. It's just the music that is popular at a given point in time.

I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.

Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap or disco or some other musical phase, and then suddenly, that'll be the thing to do.

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.

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

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

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.

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

Pop music has progressed.

I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now?

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