Eric Church Quotes

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

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

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

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

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.

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 think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

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.

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

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

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.

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

I enjoy music that is commercial.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.

There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there was a market for it - just as there is today. And there were more bad bands than there were good bands - I think that should always be remembered.

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

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

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

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.