Penelope Spheeris Quotes

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

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

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.

I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.

Music and the music business are two different things.

I don't even know if hip-hop is music anymore. It's definitely rhythm. It's definitely tempo. It's definitely beats per minute. But it's product. And television is product placement for the most part. It's not passion.

I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I know music. I grew up in Philly; it's a very musical city. My house was full of music.

Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

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.

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

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

I think I definitely would have ended up in some kind of show business. I was very interested in music when I was younger. This was back when Crosby, Stills and Nash were around.

There are so many soulful singers, even the ones coming from London, like Adele and Jessie J, who are just amazing. It feels like a really cool time to be making music now.

I'm just used to the L.A. music life.