Pop Song Quotes
51 quotes by 49 authors
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I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
— Julian Casablancas
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Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying…
— Meg Ryan
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To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about…
— Michael Jackson
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There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse,…
— Kurt Cobain
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Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously…
— Paul Muldoon
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They pay money to watch the same film. Now, you could argue, that's because it makes them feel comfortable. When they go to a movie…
— Terry Gilliam
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My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.
— Christina Perri
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I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take…
— Ryan Tedder
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Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.
— Peter Steele
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of…
— Hal David
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Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them…
— Unknown Author
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When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key…
— Joe Elliott
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All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.
— Kesha
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I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip…
— Nelly Furtado
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It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan…
— Rob Zombie
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Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
— Andrew Dominik
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I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really…
— David Nail
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To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should…
— Jason Newsted
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Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.
— David Sylvian
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It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so…
— Regina Spektor
Who Wrote These Pop Song Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 51 Pop Song Quotes, led by these top contributors: