John Lee Hooker Quotes

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in general?

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I'm saying? Like, c'mon.

I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.

The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.'

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

I love pop music, and I love when music is accessible.

Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.

The Internet has essentially democratized the music industry in terms of what is popular and it's democratized the music journalism industry as well.

I think it's harder for R&B to break in England because the radio and labels don't really know what to do with R&B music.

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

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

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

On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

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

Popular music sucks so bad right now.