Pop Music Quotes - Page 10

• There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.

  Skrillex

  Artist, Going Away, Computer

  "Skrillex Talks About the Making of His Sci-Fi Psychological Thriller 'Red Lips' Video". Interview with Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I think I get really into comfort music: '60s stuff, '50s stuff like Frankie Avalon. I love it - such simple songs, but so well written. That, and old French pop. I love that, because I don't speak French. It's all just pop music! But I love it because it just makes me focus on the melodies.

  Michael Benjamin Lerner

  Song, Thinking, Simple

  "Michael Benjamin Lerner of Telekinesis". Interview With Cory Casciato, music.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Thinking, People, Important

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• I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

  Danny Boyle

  Four, Three, Minutes

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

  Paul Weller

  Mean, Years, Important

  "Paul Weller: 'You've got to be willing to upset people'". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Teacher, Musician, Classical Music

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?

  Jenny Hval

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.

  Victoria Williams

  Thinking, Class, Age

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• I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why I called the album "Our Version of Events" was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.

  Emeli Sande

  People, Ambitious, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

  Kimbra

  People, Challenges, Pops

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• The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Rocks, Dna, Rock And Roll

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• Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

  Hilary Hahn

  Writing, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

  Elvis Costello

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

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• Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.

  Michael Hersch

  Issues, Simplicity, Concerts

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• I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias.

  Kim Him-chan

  Agency, Idols, Training

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• I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

  Neal Schon

  Play, Musician, Want

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• I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.

  Tonya Mitchell

  Country, Singing, Grew Up

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• You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk.

  Stuart Hamm

  College, Weather, Play

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• I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

  Gary Numan

  Song, Writing, Car

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 2, 2011.

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• The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked
  was Paul McCartney.

  Freedy Johnston

  Musician, Sophisticated, Pops

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• We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

  Alice Nutter

  Mother, Trying, Band

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• Our whole mission is about breaking the rules. Cibo Matto doesn't fit into any one genre and when people ask about what kind of genre is it, it's hard to say. We try to do a lot of stuff. People like to categorize, basically. So we always have trouble giving an answer. Pop music has a lot of different elements of music. Even polka too.

  Miho Hatori

  Giving, People, Trying

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• I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.

  Christian Fennesz

  Rocks, Guitar, Years

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• I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.

  Thighpaulsandra

  Style, Juxtaposition, Pops

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big.

  Jonas Carpignano

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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