Todd Rundgren Quotes

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

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

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

Pop music has progressed.

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

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.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

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

Everything goes in cycles in the music industry.

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

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.

Today, there's so many different types of music out there that it's difficult to keep up. Things do change; it's only natural.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

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

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.

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

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

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

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

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.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

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