Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.
Paul MorleyPop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.
Paul MorleyI know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.
Paul Morley