I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.
Paul MorleyThe corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.
Paul MorleyI think the internet and the web is just like a big consciousness of the planet, a big brain of the planet.
Paul MorleyPop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.
Paul MorleyPop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.
Paul Morley