Pop Music Quotes - Page 6

• If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

  Jon Secada

  Song, Honesty, Writing

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

  Norman Granz

  Knowing, Hearing, Jazz

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• I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Pops, Stooges

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• There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Growing Up, Real

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• I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Passion, Fascination, Culture

  "Mad About The Music". "The Daily Telegraph", June 13, 1996.

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• And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

  Dan Bern

  Dream, Nice, Littles

  Song: New American Language, Album: New American Language, 2001

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• I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  Coco Lee

  Listening, Sound, Taiwan

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• I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

  Mick Taylor

  Book, Shapes, Kind

  The Artist Shop IRC Chat, www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.

  Tim Gane

  Simple, Thinking, Way

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• I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.

  Kris Allen

  Doe, Different, Littles

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• I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

  Robert Wyatt

  Music, Swimming, Thinking

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• I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual

  Lady G

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

  Bobby Short

  Play, People, Trying

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• Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Remember You, Remembers You

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• That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Country, Ebb And Flow, Wonderful

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• Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.

  Daniel Lopatin

  Games, House, Behind The Scenes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.

  Colin Meloy

  Writing, Wine, Iron

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.

  Paul Morley

  Ideas, Energy, Helping

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• When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.

  Johnny Marr

  Spiritual, Important, Fans

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• Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

  Colin Meloy

  Style, Upbeat, Pops

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain.

  Marta Sanchez

  Country, Singers, Spain

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• I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

  Kim Wilde

  Music, Tunes, Radio

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• I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Mean, Influence, Grew Up

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• The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del Shannon, The Flamingos, The Platters, whatever I could get my hands on. And then some musical things, like Camelot, Singing in the Rain and Hair.

  Will Oldham

  Rain, Hair, Hands

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• I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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