Diana Ross Quotes

I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

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.

'American Top 40' allowed me to be current without my having to force change to keep up with things. The new songs kept us up to date, so every show sounded fresh.

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.

I don't really hear much music these days that grabs me. I think there are a lot of reasons for this but the overriding one is that there aren't as many opportunities for a band to get good or experiment or start the next wave of something.

I found dozens of albums I loved every year of the early 70s and more in the late 70s and more still in the decades since, partly because I knew more about music by then and partly because there were more to choose from.

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

Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.

I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He's been a legend for decades and he doesn't know what's going on right now, and he doesn't need to.

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.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

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

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

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

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.

When I come around people, I'm up to date on everything. I know all the new music that's coming out, all the stuff that ain't came out yet.

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

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.