Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

People say I'm destroying hip-hop, and I'm like, there's so much hip-hop, and it's so popular, so I don't know why I have the power to destroy it.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Great songs stand out wherever they're from.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.

If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

Nothing wrong with pop!

There are two genres of music: there's good music and there's bad music.

A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

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

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.

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

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

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius.

Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I first got into it, I was inspired by people who had come before me, and I found myself in the position of handing that on.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

I think we're in a very low point of music right now.