Anoushka Shankar Quotes

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

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business.

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

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

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.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

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

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

Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I'd log on to the BBC website, and that's how I found out about artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield and Take That.

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

I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.

Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

It's kind of like, who cares about MTV anymore?

It's hard for a country performer to make a living in a Beatles society.

The Internet has changed how young people listen to music. Television programs like 'American Idol' changed how people listen to music. It was no longer the songwriters that we celebrated; it was the singers.

Music has been taken over in this country by personalities and dominated by rock 'n' roll. There's been a synthesizer invasion and it's not going to go away.

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.