Kind Quote by Lady Gaga

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who…

— Eddie Van Halen

When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think…

— Joshua Homme

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

— Charli XCX

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these…

— Ed Droste

On the first album, we were trying to do a pop-punk album with a classical influence. We'd say 'pop-punk,' and people would say, 'No,…

— Brendon Urie

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible…

— Siobhan Fahey

In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of…

— M.I.A

There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and…

— Jack Garratt

“In an artistic sense, cool came to refer to someone with a signature artistic style so integral as to exude an authentic mode-of-being in…

— Joel Dinerstein

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

— Ryan Tedder

I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

— Charli XCX

I don't like pop music.

— Michael Jackson