Patrick Carney Quotes

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

Nothing wrong with pop!

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

Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.

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

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

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've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.

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

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

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

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

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

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

I like bands that don't necessarily sell the most records.

MTV ruined music for us.

What I do know is rock and roll and metal never goes away, ever. It took the back seat in America in the '90s. In Japan and South America, it was still really big. I never followed trends, so I don't know the exact function of them.

For a lot of fans from the early days, they probably had issues they were A-ha fans, because it probably wasn't 'cool.'

I think for music, it's global. You have a song, it sounds good, everybody likes it.

You'll see an erosion of rock 'n' roll for sure... if you're playing a mainstream festival, you don't want to be the rock guy when everyone else is talking about Swedish House Mafia.

Just because something's kinda indie and whatever and only a few people know it, it doesn't give it more authenticity over Rihanna's 'Work' work work.

I don't like the way a lot of music is going these days. No one buys it.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.