Tyga Quotes

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

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

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

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.

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

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.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

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.

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

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

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

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

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

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.

I've noticed more people coming to shows and I've had a feeling that they were from a part of the culture I haven't been able to get to before, younger people. I think on iTunes they've been experimenting with my songs and the digital radio world has been very kind to me.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

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?

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.