Bobby Vinton Quotes

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.

Music is forever changing.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Obama getting elected.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.

I can't re-define music every week!

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.