Cyndi Lauper Quotes

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.

Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

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

I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

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

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

I want to continue to constantly put out great music, expand further and further with the live show and music that is attracting music fans from all over the place, not only for ravers or electronic heads.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians, and they're still making art.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

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

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.