Kim Deal Quotes

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

I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

I always go for 'SPIN' magazine because I'm such a music buff.

If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music.

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

Taylor Swift - I don't ever hear anything of hers where I'm like, 'Oh, so-and-so could've cut that.'

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

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

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

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

I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

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

I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!

I'm not a big Beyonce girl, but I love Rihanna.

A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads.

I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

I love pop music... some hip hop... not super big into rap, but I love Rihanna. I love Alicia Keys. Rihanna was my first concert I went to. I love her.