Joe Cocker Quotes

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

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.

I try to keep track of what the kids are doing on Soundcloud, and all the new guys coming up.

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

Music industry is like fashion. Things keep coming, things keep going, trends keep changing.

After the Jonas Brothers, I was like, 'What is next?'

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

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

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

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

I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

I don't really hear much music these days that grabs me. I think there are a lot of reasons for this but the overriding one is that there aren't as many opportunities for a band to get good or experiment or start the next wave of something.

Nowadays, people have an open mind vis-a-vis new artists like Meghan Trainor, Nico & Vinz, Hozier - there are hits coming out of everywhere.

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.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an estimated factor of ten.

I think Spotify really does help. If you're going with the evolution of music these days, it's only becoming more and more popular and I don't think it's something to be shunned.

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.

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

I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.

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

The pop world has really opened its doors.

I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.