Pops Quotes · Page 14

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

— Kathleen Battle

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem.…

— Jenna Dewan

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

— Norman Granz

In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.

— Scott Walker

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

— Geezer Butler

I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.

— Kenny Rogers

For my prom I really wanted to wear a bright color - something that was going to pop and stand out.

— Shay Mitchell

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

— Billy Joel

I am already experiencing something better than being a pop star and that's being a father. It's the best job in the…

— A. J. McLean

The idea that Taylor Swift would become the giant pop icon of 2015, 2016 - she's really good, but I don't think…

— Cass Sunstein

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa…

— Marc Anthony

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way…

— David Bowie

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going…

— Alessia Cara

Eric Peters' music is at the top of what gets played around my house, in my car and while I am running.…

— Jill Phillips

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the…

— John Zakour

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and…

— Steven Morrissey

If [the Conservatives] lose, we say, "Okay, we gotta change. We gotta improve, come back and win the next election." They [leftists]…

— Rush Limbaugh

For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of…

— Chuck D

I always have looked at "indie" as a term of "independence." Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way…

— Solange Knowles

In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from…

— Warren Farrell

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial…

— Galt Niederhoffer

I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good…

— Ahmet Ertegun

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part…

— Norah Jones

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

— Sarah Brightman

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

— Ellie Goulding

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

— Adam Anderson

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

— Rashida Jones

I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool.

— Katy Perry

Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

— Max Perutz

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

— John Podhoretz

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

— Chaske Spencer

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

— Kelly Clarkson

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular -…

— Jeffrey Deitch

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

— Marianne Faithfull

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

— Bill Griffith

There will never be another Michael Jackson, a huge pop star since (the age of) 7.

— Bruno Mars

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop…

— John Currin

'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

— Bill Hicks

I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops…

— Karen Mason