Andrea Bocelli Quotes

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

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

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

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.

I don't want people buying my records for this summer's hit. I want people buying them because they're interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

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.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

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

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can't decide.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.