Thomas Beecham Quotes

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face'... Oh! What a song! And 'Rolling in the Deep'... Oh!

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

I want to bring real music back but make it marketable and mainstream. To me, real music isn't everything being synthesized, computerized.

With pop, it's pretty much straight up and down. It has to be simple. Everybody has to be able to walk down the street and be able to sing it.

I love pop music, and I love when music is accessible.

I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.

Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make that common denominator memorable.

I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.

I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.

I don't compose songs to showcase my proficiency in music or to please hard-core music lovers. The basic criterion is that my work should reach all sections of music lovers.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

I don't want to be a musician's musician. I want to be an everyone's musician.

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not.

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

I was actually going to go to a conservatory after I graduated college, now I'm thankful that Pentatonix happened because I'm working with singers in this realm of mainstream music, and to learn about how all that comes together has really helped my cello playing.

I want to make music for everybody.

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.