#popular music

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

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There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#come #country #country music #every #genre

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#always #been #chances #does #everything

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. ↗

— Keith Richards

#blues #form #guitar #know #music

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#life #music #my life #popular #popular music

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. ↗

— Bing Crosby

#country #few #few things #giant #i

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#country #country music #form #get #hear

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

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I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music. ↗

— Lester Bangs

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