I 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 MorleyPop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.
Paul MorleyThere's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.
Paul MorleyThere's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.
Paul MorleyThe remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.
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