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Karen Vigeland

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I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to ...
LEE ANN WOMACK I want to be played on the radio. I want to have Top 40 hits,
AVRIL LAVIGNE My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma...
SKYLAR GREY I just want to acknowledge that pop radio playing rock music is a very big deal to me, so thank you ...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG We play standard pop/rock music. I write most of the music, and bring it to the band so we can shape...
BRAD CALLOW I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it...
DUSTIN LYNCH The songs that hit the radio are different from the rest of the things we do. If you just hear the s...
CHRIS HENDERSON It made itself a home on Top 40 radio.
GREIL MARCUS I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are workin...
AUTRE NE VEUT Certainly with the radio now, a lot of late 20s, 30s and 40-year-olds don't listen to that music. Th...
RICK SPRINGFIELD It's become synonymous with mainstream rock and pop music lovers who perceive it as the most audienc...
DAVID ANDREWS I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artist...
EDDIE TRUNK I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like t...
BRYAN WHITE With Infinity being a company that has such a large commitment to male demographic radio stations pl...
GREG THOMPSON It was definitely a weird experience when a song goes to pop radio like that. The rock side of thing...
DALE STEWART I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
KEVIN BACON I listen to a wide range of music, from country to pop to alternative rock, as well as Indian music....
SHREYA GHOSHAL Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternativ...
EDNITA NAZARIO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'...
AARON TVEIT A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.
LAURA BELL BUNDY The thing that I think is cool about pop music in general is just that it's not like rock music or c...
FORREST KLINE I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with...
TROYE SIVAN I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
HALEY REINHART Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can'...
KRISTIN HERSH Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't ...
ALICE COOPER I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and r...
WOLFMAN JACK I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my b...
STEVE CROPPER Rock is not dead, but it is The Walking Dead, with a few groups still trying to survive in a zombie ...
MICHAEL P. NAUGHTON I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' ro...
ADAM LAMBERT So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm start...
DAVID GUETTA Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.
ERIC DICKERSON Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can...
BONO Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.
STEVE ALBINI And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock statio...
JAMES YOUNG You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
PETER TORK When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of ye...
JACKSON BROWNE When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The v...
DAVE GROHL I feel like I'm doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to ...
NAYVADIUS CASH The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers an...
GEORGE STEINER If you ask me, it's definitely a tropical group. But because of the way radio formats are laid out, ...
JULIO BAGUE We're really trying hard to bring back this thing with melody and good songs and a different way of ...
ETHAN MENTZER We couldn't get played on FM rock or country radio. Now the Burritos are more popular than ever. Who...
CHRIS HILLMAN I don't think most people are aware of what a contribution to the sound of country music Buck had.
TRACE ADKINS Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and ot...
DWIGHT YOAKAM Usually these radio personalities give advice, give the weather and play music. Now they are working...
FELIX GUTIERREZ The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They real...
JACK BLACK Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
GEORGE LUCAS Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the ...
TAYLOR HAWKINS That King of Pop shit. I named him. I named him the King of Pop, Rock and Soul. He changed it just t...
BOB JONES The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywh...
BONNIE RAITT When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They th...
NIKLAS ZENNSTROM Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists,...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Before record stores became Nazi-infested bunkers that were full of people who gave you dirty looks ...
BEN CLARK Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who onl...
COMPAY SEGUNDO I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed o...
JAMES IHA Rock radio listeners do want that rock radio attitude. They want subject matter consistent with thei...
MARK STEINMETZ Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They ...
JACK BLACK Coming from Tribulations, which had more of a rock sound, I think Kevin wanted to get back to more o...
ALEX BERAM Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.
ALEX WINSTON I'm so excited about joining Radio 1, ... When I was a kid I did the classic thing of taping shows o...
FEARNE COTTON My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio....
MARTINA MCBRIDE We sit on the fence between hard rock and pop,
DEF LEPPARD In the '50s or '60s, the name started getting put into the elevator-music genre. So much was happeni...
KAREN VIGELAND We stopped doing the 'elevator music' thing almost three decades ago. We still have a program that h...
KAREN VIGELAND But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never playe...
BILL WYMAN I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
ARETHA FRANKLIN For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop mus...
ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ...
JOHN LEGEND In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It's a foundation o...
STORMZY The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit so...
FLUME When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then ...
DMITRY MEDVEDEV The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit so...
FLUME It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because...
TALIB KWELI In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
IRA GLASS We played a full 40 minutes of sound basketball.
CATHY INGLESE The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I...
NICK HORNBY I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
CAMILLA LACKBERG What enthused me the most was that each of us — each in his own genre — (has) fused our sound wi...
ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our...
PETE TOWNSHEND I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.
STEPHEN HAWKING She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was a crypt where music played to masses of the dead, and McJagger was their desolate pharaoh, a ...
RED TASH 'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.
ALEXANDER HANSON I love the soul sound that the Bee Gees are into now, and that's the kind of feel that I want to hav...
ANDY GIBB I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates el...
K. FLAY In Providence, the noise scene is very anti-rock. But we don't want to outright reject rock clubs. T...
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KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia...
KAREN BASS When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
KAREN BASS It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
KAREN BASS All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I...
KAREN ARMSTRONG