LL Cool J Quotes

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

We Can't Stop' - everyone said that it wasn't going to work on pop radio, because it didn't have an EDM-type beat. But it went to No. 2 on Billboard and No. 1 on iTunes.

I don't like the way a lot of music is going these days. No one buys it.

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.

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

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

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.

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

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

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.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.

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?

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

I get tired of people trying to dog out the radio for not playing this or that. There are lots of people who like what they play - otherwise, they wouldn't play it.

Probably from, like, 10 to 14 or 15, I would just listen to pop radio.

Music has changed, but there will always be a demand for amazing music.

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.

I think for music, it's global. You have a song, it sounds good, everybody likes it.

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.