Pop Quotes · Page 11

We need more pop songs and more empowering songs.

— Ava Max

I don't think I could make a pop album.

— Linda Perry

I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'

— Ronan Keating

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

— Patti LuPone

Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it's what it expresses that counts.

— Richard Ashcroft

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

— Orianthi

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

— Andre Rieu

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

— John Podhoretz

Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when…

— Feist

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but…

— Ellie Goulding

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was…

— Tom Stoppard

I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of…

— Joe Swanberg

Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

There's this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they were just in the right…

— Stephen Merchant

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country…

— John Oates

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit…

— Ronnie Milsap

We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.

— Stjepan Hauser

I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.

— Lorde

Every single song on 'Torches' was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn't any fat on the songs; there wasn't a…

— Mark Foster

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

— Brian Wilson

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

— Lauren Mayberry

'Push It,' to me, was very pop. And back then, you were called 'sell-out' to be pop.

— Pepa

You don't plan 'La la la's.' They just pop out. Bowie and Marc Bolan littered many of their songs with 'La la's.'

— Jim Kerr

The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still…

— Ashley Monroe

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

— Madonna Ciccone

I would definitely say I'm predominantly a pop artist, obviously, but my music is different. It's not just top-40-radio-type music.

— Madison Beer

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.

— David Cross

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

— Bebe Rexha

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

— Daryl Hall

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

— Jake Bugg

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

— Brian Posehn

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

— John Oates

I'm hard-pressed to be country enough for country and pop enough for pop.

— B. J. Thomas

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

As a composer, it is a great thrill for me to have an album in the top 15 of the pop charts.

— Ludovico Einaudi

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

— Phoebe Snow

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

— Kristin Scott Thomas