The 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 MorleyThrough pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.
Paul MorleyIt's kind of great being a group without a lead singer, because the possibilities are sky high. Odd things become the lead singer, noises become the lead singer. It actually makes the thing much more flexible.
Paul MorleyThere's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.
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 MorleyI'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.
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