Music Relevance Quotes

What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

I'm not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they're so cool no one listens to them.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

I'm delighted people still enjoy my music all these years later.

Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

I've come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It's the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives.

People have been saying rock is dead for years, but the reality is that it just falls out of favor with pop culture from time to time.

A lot of times with artists from back in the day, they do a new album and they don't sell as much. People say they love them, and it doesn't always translate to new music.

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

Music is cyclical, but I've never thought of the music I make as being so off the wall or left field that it wouldn't always have an audience that would relate to it.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

I think the people who are sitting in their living room doing those, 'Let's take country music back' blogs and all that stuff, that's crazy to me. No one's saying that about rock & roll, and no one sounded like the Beatles since 1960. No one says that about R&B, and no one sounded like the Commodores since 1970.

We've become an underground thing for kids, because we never got the love our peers got back in the day. Kids are loving discovering us, and I'm happy to be that band.

I never expect those type of dudes to even listen to my music but for one of those Juggalos to come up to me like, 'Man, that 'All My Life' record, man you was talking to me.' That struck me like, 'Damn, maybe people, you never know who's listening and who you might be touching with your music.'

I've not thought about the Stone Roses since we quit. How many LPs do I have to make to stop people talking about it?

I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

Music in our schools is considered to be an extra-curricular activity in which you teach your students a few patriotic songs and bhajans that children are not interested in.

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

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

In general, what fans talk about and think about become a very important source of inspiration to us, because we want to write something that's real to people, especially those who listen to BTS music.

A good song's a good song, and well known songs take on meaning in people's lives.