Mainstream Music Quotes

I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

The bands I like are not obscure at all. Far from it.

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Pop music will never be low brow.

It's not the coolest thing in the world to be walking around humming the Taylor Swift song. It's not as cool to be singing along with the number one song in the country as it is to be the jaded, indifferent hipster who wants to turn you on to something that nobody else is talking about.

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.

The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

It's great to bring urban music to the commercial scene.

Major labels don't want to take chances on cooler, indie kind of things. People only know, unfortunately, what they're being spoon-fed.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

Without intermediate artists, music is what "American Idol" decides is great or made by the very poor, because Sharon Osbourne's made everything free. No, we have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

I can just be a Christian who sings mainstream music instead of having to be a Christian who has to somehow just sing Christian music.

Just because something's kinda indie and whatever and only a few people know it, it doesn't give it more authenticity over Rihanna's 'Work' work work.

I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio.

Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians, and they're still making art.

There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U.S. R&B males.

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small indie band.