Chad Gilbert Quotes

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

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

The music that I've had out so far was obviously very pop, but when I signed with Hollywood Records, I was like, 'I know that's the music you're familiar with, but that's not what I want to sing. I want to do country.' They were on board with it!

Pop music has progressed.

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

We want to be considered a band, like Maroon 5 or Coldplay.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

'Fade To Black' - just this amazing construct: a song that defied the definition of what Metallica was perceived to be at the time.

As much my music is dance music, it is also pop.

I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.

Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.

I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What are people consuming?' and I take these things into effect.

I love Bad Bunny. He's changing the game. I think he's doing something very important with his success.

I'm just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want 'cause I'm a fan of hip-hop.

What is pop music? It's not a genre. It's just the music that is popular at a given point in time.

I love R&B because it got me to where I am today, but at the same time, R&B just doesn't sell.

Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.

In the 80s, I remember the radio stations would play everything from rock to rap.