Camille Paglia Quotes

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.

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

I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now?

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your welcome is a vital ingredient.

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

Call it whatever you want, whether it's hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it's all pretty disposable. I don't think that the music of Nikki Minaj or Justin Beiber is going to be played on the radio twenty-five years from now.

Ain't nobody bumping Nas no more, no disrespect to him. He had his time.

Someone like Jay-Z does have a timeless quality, but it's much different than ours. You can look back at something like "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors or the music that was on American Bandstand in the 1950s-'60s.

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

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.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

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.

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.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.