Gerry Beckley Quotes

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

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?

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.

Call it whatever you want, whether it's hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it's all pretty disposable. I don't think that the music of Nikki Minaj or Justin Beiber is going to be played on the radio twenty-five years from now.

Ain't nobody bumping Nas no more, no disrespect to him. He had his time.

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

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.

Pop music has progressed.

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

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.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

We were the first generation of rock & roll, but life goes on.

Someone like Jay-Z does have a timeless quality, but it's much different than ours. You can look back at something like "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors or the music that was on American Bandstand in the 1950s-'60s.

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

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

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 pop world has really opened its doors.

Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I'd log on to the BBC website, and that's how I found out about artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield and Take That.