Sheena Easton Quotes

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

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

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

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

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

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?

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

MTV ruined music for us.