Ani DiFranco Quotes

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

I enjoy music that is commercial.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

All that pop that you see on the radio? It's just the worst crud I've ever heard in my life. It's designed to make money, and that's about it.

I love Top 40 pop, don't get me wrong; I just don't think that there's anyone in Top 40 pop that's 'real.'

Pop music will never be low brow.

I am totally unapologetic about pop music.

I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.

I've always listened to Top 40 music.

I love mainstream music.

That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.

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

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

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music!

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

I love pop music. Who doesn't?

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.