Popular Song Quotes - Page 5

• I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

  Frank Fairfield

  Song, Play, Obscure

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• You're the cutest thing that I ever did see
  I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree

  Steve Miller

  Song, Love You, Tree

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• You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat

  Adele

  Song, Heart, Hands

  Song: Rolling in the Deep, Album: 21, 2011

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• I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.

  Yo Gotti

  Song, Blessed, Together

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• Takin' out my freak tonight

  Britney Spears

  Song, Tonight, Freak

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• She's got a way about her,
  And everywhere she goes,
  a million dreams of love surround her,
  everywhere.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Song, Way

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• 'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Heaven, House

  Song: Yoü And I, Album: Born This Way: The Remix, 2011

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• I'm on the edge with you

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Pops, Edges

  Song: The Edge of Glory, Album: Born This Way: The Remix

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• You don't know a thing about me

  Kelly Clarkson

  Song, Pops, Proxy

  Song: Mr. Know It All, Album: Stronger, 2011

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• It's okay not to be okay

  Jessie J

  Song, Pops, Okay

  Song: Who You Are, Album: Who You Are, 2011

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• I- I love you like a love song, baby
  And I keep hittin' repeat-peat-peat-peat

  Selena Gomez

  Baby, Song, Love You

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• You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.

  Carly Simon

  Song, Thinking, Vain

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• Which Seat Should I Take?

  Rebecca Black

  Song, Should, Pops

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• I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, New York, Ridiculous

  "I wanna go back to Dixie". Song by Tom Lehrer, 1960.

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• When you're DJing, there are songs I love to play, but I know people are going to walk off. It doesn't matter what I like. You have to be able to play the popular song and slip in one of yours, in such a way that they don't notice it. You've got them in such a roll that you get them back into what they think they like.

  Russell Peters

  Song, I Like You, Thinking

  "How Russell Peters Got The Last Laugh". Interview with Ross Luippold, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2013.

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• A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing.

  Andy Williams

  Song, Thinking

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• I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I woke up this morning,
  Smiled at the rising sun,
  Three little birds,
  Sat on my doorstep,
  Singing sweet songs

  Bob Marley

  Song, Sweet, Morning

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• Every breath you take and every move you make
  Every bond you break, every step you take
  I'll be watchin' you
  Every single day and every word you say
  Every game you play, every night you stay
  I'll be watchin' you

  Sting

  Song, Moving, Night

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• The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

  Bruce Beresford

  Song, Art, Numbers

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• I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly

  Nicki Minaj

  Song, Mean, Pelicans

  Song: Super Bass, Album: Pink Friday

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• The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.

  Robert J. White

  Uplifting, Song, Self Esteem

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• I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.

  Phil Anselmo

  Song, Musician, Band

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.

  Kurt Weill

  Song, Musical, Use

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• I came to win, to conquer, to thrive

  Nicki Minaj

  Song, Winning, Conquer

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