Pop Music Quotes
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Pop Music Quotes & Sayings
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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
...And you're the only one who knows.
— Billy Joel
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— Lady Gaga
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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