Glenn Danzig Quotes

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

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

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 know it sounds really lame and hater-ish, but I think 2009 was maybe the worst year for music ever.

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

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

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

The public doesn't want new music.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

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.

I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

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.

I think music docs could turn off some people.

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.

The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'

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