Pop song Quotes

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

— David Ives

“I've been around in this world causing drama”

— MIA

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

— Moon Unit Zappa

A timeless pop song is the hardest thing to do as a songwriter.

— Mark Foster

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

— Kesha

A great pop song should be felt when you hear it.

— Max Martin

When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.

— Sia

The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

— Keren Woodward

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

— Andrew Dominik

“Soon we are singing at the top of our lungs. A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us…

— David Levithan

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and…

— Robyn

I was always one of these people who is irrationally moved by stupid pop songs.

— Will Sheff

I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about…

— Phil Collins

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

— Julian Casablancas

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake…

— John Lydon

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by…

— Jason Pierce

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

— Jason Newsted

Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff…

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this,…

— Ryan Tedder

You have to ration your creativity over all your songs. You write a really cool pop song then you have to write…

— Oliver Sykes

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy…

— Camille Paglia

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with…

— Sting

When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love…

— Stephin Merritt

Like everybody else, I love a good pop song. You know, there's nothing like it. I also just really like music that…

— Lee Ranaldo

These pop songs almost feel like tabloid journalism, in a way. It's c**p that people seem to like. And I don't know…

— Eddie Vedder

It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I…

— Ian Axel

It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you…

— Will Sheff

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

— Jarvis Cocker

That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can…

— Torquil Campbell

That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs.…

— Reba McEntire

I am saying what comes out, because I'm really not a methodical writer. I'm not a good building writer, where you are…

— William Fitzsimmons

I think I have a vested interest in thinking that the lyrics are important, but I think for us it's important that…

— Lauren Mayberry

“Carrie? Hello?” “Keer-ee-eh,” I said, emphasizing the middle vowel.  Normally, I don’t care if people mispronounce my name, unusual as it is, but…

— Genevieve Pearson

“We plant the seeds of resilience in the ways we process negative events. After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“The bad news is your flaws don’t come from nowhere. The world is deeply fucked from every angle; its damage is incomprehensibly…

— Emma Healey

“Dimanchophobia: Fear of Sundays, not in a religious sense but rather, a condition that reflects fear of unstructured time. Also known as…

— Douglas Coupland

“All my films are about Hong Kong." Wong Kar Wai once told me, "even if they're set in Argentina." While many in…

— Wong Kar Wai, John Powers

“Look at us. Running around, always rushed, always late. I guess that's why they call it the human race. What we crave…

— The Switch

“It's the same thing that makes all pop music so heartbreaking. Even when Miley Cyrus sings "So I put my hands up,…

— Mark Leyner

“I came here in a car like everybody else. In a car filled with shit I thought meant something and shortly thereafter…

— Stephanie Danler