Lionel Richie Quotes

I don't think there is much American music.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

I think that essentially, since music was invented, it's basically reached out and touched every single kind of conceivable generation.

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.

Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.

My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didn't know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.

It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music.

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.