Pop music Quotes · Page 11

Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.

— Paul Morley

I think that's a big trope in pop music: the blaze-of-glory breakup. It's not one that I particularly identify with, but it's…

— Caroline Polachek

'Better' is one of the first real steps I've made into 'pop music,' and this collab feels like a match made in…

— Clairo

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

— Norah Jones

The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney.

— Freedy Johnston

I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.

— RuPaul

I feel like in pop music and even indie music, there's this weird thing where women have been pitted against each other.

— Phoebe Bridgers

Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.

— Keren Woodward

The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly…

— Will Oldham

If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to…

— Magnus Scheving

Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual…

— Ian Anderson

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with…

— Joe Satriani

I had a few DJs in my neighbourhood that would play music in the streets. There was no hip-hop yet; there were…

— Gza

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical…

— Aleksey Igudesman

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because…

— Vince Staples

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I…

— Lady Gaga

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to…

— Juliana Hatfield

I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about…

— Beatrice Miller

I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an…

— Halsey

Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B…

— Nick Hornby

“The Marie bit is easy enough to understand, then. The Laura thing takes a bit more explaining, but what it is, I…

— Nick Hornby

Pop music often deals with subject matter like breakups, or you have songs that are like, "I will love you forever," or…

— Shura

I feel very strongly about letting people know I'm proud of who I am. I want people to know when they hear…

— Nomi Ruiz

I think Micheal Jackson was a Great Man! The guy wrote his own music from his own thoughts, with his own words,…

— Glen Rambharack

My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I love nostalgic pop music. The '80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the '80s so…

— Kim Petras

I'm used to presenting programs about pop music, interviewing pop stars, and hosting awards.

— Miquita Oliver

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do…

— Leon Bridges

I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.

— Ennio Morricone

As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt…

— Bryce Dessner

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

— Kim Wilde

I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what…

— Tyler Hilton

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

— Joe Goddard

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

— John Mayer

You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is…

— Henry Rollins

I was so catty about pop music as a teen, but it wasn't fair of me to judge it the same way…

— Chappell Roan

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an…

— Robert Christgau

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha…

— Kara DioGuardi

I love music that's on the radio, but I wanted to make pop music my own way. I had so much fun…

— Raye

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

— Becky G