Pop Music Quotes - Page 2

• The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've got to really listen hard to somebody who's doing a good melody and a good lyric.

  Barry Manilow

  Country, Interesting, Gone

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music

  Aaron Neville

  Soul, Pops, Sam Cooke

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• I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius.

  Lady Gaga

  Queens, Unique, Men

  "My New Album Is All About the Dark Side of Celebrity, Says Lady Gaga". www.dailyrecord.co.uk. November 27, 2009.

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• I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Crazy, Sound, Radio

  Source: www.newnownext.com

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• Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

  Matt Tong

  Girl, Love You, Mean

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.

  Gwen Stefani

  Interesting, Watches, Next

  Source: www.elle.com

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• And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

  Pete Seeger

  Art, Pops, Fine

  "Show 1 - Play A Simple Melody: American pop music in the early fifties, Part 1". Interview on radio documentary series "Pop Chronicles", digital.library.unt.edu. February 14, 1968.

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• I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Vices, Done

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• You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.

  David Chase

  Art, Hands, People

  "David Chase's teenage dreams" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 20, 2012.

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• I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.

  Lady Gaga

  Writing, Intellectual, Evolution

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• Eventually I would like to reach the stage where I don't have to write about love and kisses and all that stuff. I wish I could write about really ultimate things. That's where I think all of us want to go, really. All the groups seem to be heading towards a kind of pop music that deals with ultimate things.

  Eric Burdon

  Writing, Kissing, Thinking

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• I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Rocks, Games

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• As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

  Bono

  Ghetto, Rocks, Hip Hop

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• Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

  John Lydon

  Example, Fascists, Pops

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Eliot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

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• Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

  Danny Boyle

  Bigs, Pops

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

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• Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t enough, Michael then went and single-handedly revolutionized music videos. It’s amazing that today, some twenty-five years later, everyone who makes a pop music video still feels obligated to include a 'group dance' sequence like the one Michael pioneered in 'Beat It'. That’s how influential and ahead of the times he was.

  Marcus Miller

  Years, Twenties, Groups

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• As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

  Grimes

  Challenges, Trying, Quality

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• I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.

  Darren Criss

  Cheesy, Pops, Adoration

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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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• Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

  Tom Morello

  Car, Resistance, Rebellion

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• Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Art, Careers, Organization

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• Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

  Jon Landau

  Kings, Accomplishment, Creative

  Jon Landau (1972). “It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal”

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• Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

  Jon Landau

  Records, Bob, Firsts

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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 I have always loved best.

  John Lydon

  Pops

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Eliot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

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