Cat Quote by Louis Armstrong

A lot of it starts with playing instruments and working with other people. Some of the new generation is doing it on computers and…

— Ray Parker, Jr

It's like a bunch of hard-core kids who decided they were going to write pop music.

— Pete Wentz

We think about strategies in pop songs to make people listen to them and be like, "What the hell was that?" But then they…

— Andrew VanWyngarden

People are being more ­experimental. I hear chords being played that really haven't been on the radio. I love that. I go to my…

— Greg Kurstin

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

— Carlos Alomar

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

— Trombone Shorty

I hate it when people try to explain music. The best thing about music is that it's invisible. If you make a song and…

— Yung Lean

What's missing from pop music is danger.

— Prince

There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some…

— Merle Haggard

When what you do is play characters, every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends. I…

— Brie Larson

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main…

— Jonny Greenwood

People don't expect me to make pop music.

— Trace Cyrus