Pop music Quotes · Page 8

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the…

— Thea Gilmore

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

— Frank Zappa

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

— Britney Spears

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

— Autre Ne Veut

There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.

— Prince

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was…

— James Bay

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music…

— Pete Seeger

I love A Day to Remember. They really had that style down of doing heavy songs mixed with pop songs when nobody…

— Ronnie Radke

I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm…

— Caitlin Rose

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial, so I'd be hard pressed to feel embarrassed by anything I listen to.…

— Ani DiFranco

I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique -…

— Lady Gaga

Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film…

— Jon Landau

I remember agonising, the day before I had lunch with Tony Blair for the first time, over what my opening question to…

— Cathy Newman

Well, rock used to be the only game in town in terms of radio and what the kids listen to. Now I…

— Kyle Gass

I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could…

— Todd Rundgren

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's…

— Michael Gira

“There was a further, rather crazy reason why Neil was my dream batsman. In the 1950s, pop music was innocent and melodic.…

— David Frith

I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview…

— Kim Him-chan

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places…

— Jarvis Cocker

“As a general observation, I think our high school and college-age students are wonderful, that they’re striving collectively, I think, to be…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“TV is not the “entertainment” medium it is assumed to be. Newspapers and periodicals aren’t either. Pop music is “concerned” music, with…

— Anonymous

A lot of people still don't realize that, before Rascal Flatts, I was in a Christian band for four or five years,…

— Jay DeMarcus

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence…

— Nick Hornby

“One reason Elvis mattered, she said, was that in his prime, pop music had still been politically innocent, therefore deeply life-affirming, therefore…

— Dean Koontz

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

— Charli XCX

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

— Becky G

The great thing about both Indian and Western pop music is that they're fast and have a beat.

— Vidya Vox

People didnt expect pop music to be authentic. There were a lot of manufactured bands - of which I love.

— Darren Hayes

We're proud of the position we're in in pop music - we feel like we're in a unique class.

— Russell Mael

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

— Brian Eno

Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.

— Charli XCX

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

— Cliff Martinez

I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by…

— Lady Gaga

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

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

— Bono

I wanted to show that pop music can be about something else other than the big love songs.

— Sigrid

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

— Elizabeth Price

Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.

— David Bennun

I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.

— Kris Allen