Kristin Hersh Quotes

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

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

Pop music will never be low brow.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

We Can't Stop' - everyone said that it wasn't going to work on pop radio, because it didn't have an EDM-type beat. But it went to No. 2 on Billboard and No. 1 on iTunes.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.

I love pop music. Who doesn't?

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.

If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in general?

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.

It seems that pop country has stuck around a long time.

There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at.

Pop is everything from Kanye West to Taylor Swift, it's all pop to me.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

I love mainstream music.

Call it whatever you want, whether it's hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it's all pretty disposable. I don't think that the music of Nikki Minaj or Justin Beiber is going to be played on the radio twenty-five years from now.