Jimmy Buffett Quotes

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

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.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

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.

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.

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.

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

Well, rock used to be the only game in town in terms of radio and what the kids listen to. Now I think there was a big hip-hop takeover, and pop music, it became mechanical and computer-y.

Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?