Pop Music Quotes

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

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

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

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

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

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

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

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.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

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

I'm the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do music that anyone can like and enjoy.

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

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

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

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.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

Pop music will never be low brow.

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

I don't like pop music.

Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.