Lester Bangs Quotes

Pop music has progressed.

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.

Music industry is like fashion. Things keep coming, things keep going, trends keep changing.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

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

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.

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

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

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.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

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.

I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

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.

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.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

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?

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.

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

I think we're in a very low point of music right now.