Robert Kardashian Quotes

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

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

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.

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.

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

There is no everlasting power in the music of today. Everyone is running after record sales.

It's kind of crazy to see how many people actually listen to my music.

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.

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.

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

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

The pop world has really opened its doors.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

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

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

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

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.

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

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

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.

A lot of my fans are people who have grown up and don't have as much time to listen to the radio, but still want to keep up with what's popular. A lot of shows don't talk to them anymore, but I do.

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.