Robyn Quotes

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

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

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

There is no everlasting power in the music of today. Everyone is running after record sales.

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

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

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

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.