Bill Medley Quotes

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.

The first song I ever wrote was called 'Because I Love You.' I was very inspired by the Spice Girls and they were singing about love and stuff and I was seven.

Like Juan Gabriel and Ana Gabriel, both singers and songwriters of legendary talent, Marco Antonio has reshaped a kind of Mexican romanticism. What he brings to pop music is the kind of songs that really talk to people's hearts.

I feel bad for kids growing up that, like, their favorite rapper is Lil Yachty.

Rag 'N' Bone Man is for everybody, like Wu Tang is for the children.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.

Bands like Little Mix do represent youth culture because loads of 16 year old girls listen to them.

I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.

Good, effective pop music isn't just verbal language. It takes a good physical beat to make you feel something.

When I was in high school in the '50s, all pop music - Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard - was aimed at teenagers. I loved that stuff.

When I look at Stephanie McMahon's entire career, I'm always blown away at how she just moves your soul. Literally, my heart is moved by her. Either I hate her or love her - or love to hate her.

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.

Nate Dogg is my favorite artist. I cried more when he passed than when Michael Jackson did.

'Ray of Light' changed my life. The whole album, but that song specifically, was just so life-changing and incredible for me.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.

Songs have been my greatest teachers and continue to be really important in my life.

Until I started performing in public, when at the end of the concert people would come to me with teary eyes and say that my performance took them to a trance zone, I had no idea that I can create an impact with my singing.

The kind of songs I sing have been existing in Bollywood music since a long time. In fact, the reason my music is so popular amongst the millions of youth is because I sing in their own language, in their own slang, and about their lives.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this is what I wanted to do.