I know it's not the '80s anymore, but the '80s are back with a vengeance. Get yourself some neon; whether it's a… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged. — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs.… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
I realized that, for me, great records always moved me with the lyrics and the melodies. And so I said, 'I think… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries.… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure. — Don Cornelius Copy Share Image
It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro… — Steve Brown Copy Share Image
If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people… — Natasha Leggero Copy Share Image
The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
“Queen always seemed to me to be manufactured championship music—designed to be played in stadiums to get fans hyped up about paying… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road. We had nothing… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make… — Jana Kramer Copy Share Image
I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy… — Pedro Pascal Copy Share Image
The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band… — Liam Payne Copy Share Image
Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
