Pop Quotes · Page 11

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

— John Podhoretz

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

— Stjepan Hauser

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

— Pepa

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

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

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

— Madonna Ciccone

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

It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't…

— Olly Murs

I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different.…

— Ricki-Lee Coulter

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a…

— James Blake

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

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the…

— Eric Burdon

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

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

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

— B. J. Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

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

— John Oates

When everyone was listening to pop music I was listening to Monty Python records.

— Richard Herring

I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything…

— Eric Whitacre

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

— Chely Wright

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

— Elizabeth Price

Point guards love it when a guy can pick and pop and make a shot and make threes.

— Mike Budenholzer

Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.

— La'Porsha Renae

I love a good chorus, you know? I consider a lot of what I love pop. I consider Mitski pop.

— Phoebe Bridgers

Remember, the West's rock or pop was created for their languages, not ours.

— Vidyasagar

Ollies are so simple, I don't do ollies. I do other stuff... I mean, I can pop an ollie but.

— Hopsin

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

— Samantha Bond

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of…

— Rick Astley

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do…

— Jill Sobule

We've never been ashamed of the fact we are, first and foremost, a pop band.

— James Righton

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on…

— Jonathan Cain

I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

— Sia

I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

— Victoria Justice

I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It…

— Judith Durham