Julian Ovenden Quotes

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.

George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz.

'Auto Music' isn't a pop record by any stretch.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

I can't tell you what genre Maroon 5 is in. I don't know if they're rock or pop or alternative. I don't know what they are. I have a hard time separating that stuff. I just know what I like when I hear it.

Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.

I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

I hate genres. I think they're just marketing labels.

I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.

I try to pick music for a diner that doesnt involve a lot of lyrics, so you're not paying attention to that. As long as it doesnt dominate the party, it should be more atmosphere music. When I'm by myself, I never play music.

I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal.

It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.

In Denver, all we really had was pop radio, so I grew up on all that late '70s pop stuff - Billy Joel, James Taylor, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Steve Miller and Toto. Great love songs and really hooky and melodic music - I have all of that stuff in my heart.