Pop Music Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Pop Music

Pop Music Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Pop Music quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual — Lady G

I love my pop music. — Rita Ora

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel. — Buddy Holly

Writing catchy pop songs is a super-minor superpower, but it's mine. — J.C. Lillis

...And you're the only one who knows. — Billy Joel

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10 — Lady Gaga

Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain. — Marta Sanchez

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again. — James Surowiecki

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. — Pete Seeger

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. — Ravi Shankar

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't. — Robert Wyatt

I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music. — Darren Criss

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head. — Justin Timberlake

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music. — Paul Oakenfold

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself. — Tori Amos

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away. — Peter Tork

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me. — Merzbow

I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to. — Halsey

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do. — Siobhan Fahey

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off. — Kimbra

I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category. — Tyler Hilton

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people. — Marina And The Diamonds

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop. — James Mercer

There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening. — Prince

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time. — William Fitzsimmons

Pop music will never be low brow. — Lady Gaga

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love. — Danny Boyle

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy. — Feist

I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago — Lady Gaga

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion. — Siobhan Fahey

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. — Tom Stoppard

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music. — Nicki Minaj

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible. — Tove Styrke

I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now. — Hollie Cavanagh

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work. — Sufjan Stevens

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music. — Ayshay

I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be. — Rebecca Ferguson

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city. — Daryl Hall

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later. — Brian Eno

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic. — Ha-Joon Chang

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music. — Danny Boyle

I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music. — Lady Gaga

My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music. — Becky G

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music. — Barry Gibb

Before I really knew country music, I listened to pop, and I still do. — Kelsea Ballerini

Pop music I have always loved best. — John Lydon

When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits. — Max Greenfield

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur. — Jane Siberry

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket. — Gustavo Dudamel

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up! — Morrissey

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music. — Bono

I don't like pop music. — Michael Jackson

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption. — Kathleen Battle

I don't hate pop music. I liked the Beatles, but then, I knew them. — John Tavener

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music. — Gustav Ejstes

I listen to zero pop music, which is really weird from someone who makes pop music. — Miley Cyrus

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it. — James Bay

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. — Norman Granz

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that. — Chris Robinson

I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks. — Taylor Momsen

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song. — Patrick Stump

Music is life, and life is not a business. — Iggy Pop

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is. — Morrissey

It would just be like a movie makeover montage, pop music scoring the ugly girl's transformation from bespectacled duckling to cheerleader swan. — Leila Sales

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins. — Peter Tork

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music. — Bruce Sterling

I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music. — David Archuleta

You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan. — Simon Cheshire

80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music. — Jeffrey Tucker

It's ok to say you've got a weak spot,you don't always have to be on top.
Better to be hated then loved(x3) for what you're not. — Marina And The Diamonds

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports. — Elizabeth Price

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music. — Mick Taylor

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music. — Brian Posehn

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it. — Bono

I like pop music. I also like the sound of a dying refrigerator. I can listen to that for an hour and a half if I'm in the mood. — Kyp Malone

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does. — Casey Spooner

I love pop music, but I don't want to be Celine Dion. — Vonda Shepard

Pop music should be about young people. — Gary Kemp

Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants. — Amity Shlaes

Pop music is not a threatening style of music. — Joan Jett

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react. — Alessia Cara

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? — John Cusack

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired. — Ben Folds

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial. — Ani DiFranco

I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast. — Girl Talk

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word. — Patrick Stump

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music. — Lady Gaga

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. — John Lydon

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. — Aaron Neville

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties. — Barry Manilow

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life. — Mika.

I was raised on pop music. — Jane Siberry

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it! — Michel Gondry

My music is not a particular genre. It's not bubblegum or cheese. It's just good songs, pop songs. It's just my songs. — Eliza Doolittle

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music. — Autre Ne Veut

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto. — Bono

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music. — Peter Tork

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else. — Ellie Goulding

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads. — RuPaul