Pop Music Quotes - Page 3

• Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

  Michel Gondry

  Pops, More Money, Music Is

  "Surreal To Reel" By Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.

  Julianne Hough

  Wall, Rocks, Singing

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.

  Neil Tennant

  People, Satisfaction, Paradox

  "Pet Shop Boys: cab drivers ask us if we've retired". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2012.

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• We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

  Charles Kelley

  Country, Rocks, Long

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• I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

  Gary Kemp

  Musician, Actors, Pops

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• Pop music should be about young people.

  Gary Kemp

  People, Should, Pops

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• Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.

  Nick Hornby

  Heart, Swings, Cds

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.186, Penguin

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• If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.

  Leon Bridges

  Crazy, Band, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

  Aleksey Igudesman

  Interesting, Film, Classical Music

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• I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Writing, Character

  "Set List: Randy Newman". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 31, 2011.

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• No matter what though, there's always rock & roll. There's rock 'n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock & roll in pop music, there's rock 'n' roll in soul, there's rock 'n' roll in country. When you see people dress and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock & roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star.

  John Varvatos

  Country, Stars, Rocks

  "The GQ+A: John Varvatos on His New Book 'John Varvatos: Rock in Fashion'". Interview with Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 17, 2013.

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• An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.

  Matt Redman

  Song, Hate, Love You

  "A conversation with worship leader Matt Redman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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

  Alessia Cara

  Taken, Artist, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

  Halsey

  Joy, Pops, Songwriting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine amazing melodies and honest human emotion. But coming out of the super-super-commerical pop industry in the 90s, maybe people forgot about the fact that pop music can do both of those things.

  Robyn

  Years, People, Facts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like to play music that people can feel deeply but it's also interesting to listen to - a nice balance between cathartic and pop music.

  Max Bemis

  Nice, Play, People

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.

  Eric Hutchinson

  Song, Mean, Play

  Source: blog.murfie.com

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• I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people and still will, but I'm not a pop artist. I didn't start from there. I started in underground music. I consider myself an underground artist, as well as a producer.

  Juicy J

  Rapper, Artist, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music. That's what I enjoy doing. And I don't think I'm going to get sick of it anytime soon.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Writing, Cutting

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. It is, but there are a lot of times where people treat it like a sport - there are tricks you can pull, different combinations that make something better. I don't really think I approach it that way, but I definitely have a love for the science that is pop song writing.

  Halsey

  Sports, Song, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.

  Steve Earle

  Art, Mean, Decision

  "Will Sheff Meets Steve Earle". Interview with Michael Tedder, www.spin.com. May 17, 2011.

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• God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

  Lady Gaga

  Mtv, God Bless, Pops

  MTV Video Music Awards, 2010.

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• Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.

  Steven Morrissey

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Voice

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.

  Anthony Daniels

  Intelligent, Men, Gambling

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• Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

  Michel Gondry

  Years, Appreciate, Quality

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