Pop Music Quotes - Page 5

• Showtunes might be able to come back into pop music, which is something we haven't seen since the 50s and 60s. Everything is related to everything else because we're in such a niche industry.

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone

  Might, Able, Niche

  "BWW Interview: The Ensemblist Podcast Returns for a Second Season". Interview with Ashlee Latimer, www.broadwayworld.com. September 4, 2016.

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• I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.

  Melanie Martinez

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• I just think that pop music is very interesting in how it can reach so many people. I like that I can tell stories and I just wanted to be heard more, I guess. That's why it's pop, but in my mind I don't really view my music as pop, I don't really view it as anything. I just look at it as a picture, I like visuals.

  Melanie Martinez

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.

  Alan Green

  Raises Questions, Hymns, Church

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There's something bigger than improvised music versus pop music versus something else. What actually succeeds in being communicated are human feelings, things that people can latch onto and say, "Yeah, I feel like that sometimes." It can be inspiring or it can be something that keeps you sane when you're not feeling well.

  John Dieterich

  People, Feelings, Succeed

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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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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• Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it.

  David Bennun

  Art, Literature, Toss

  Source: thequietus.com

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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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• I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.

  Darren Criss

  Cheesy, Pops, Adoration

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• I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

  Ani DiFranco

  Hate, Pops, All Things

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.

  Paul Morley

  Dream, Thinking, People

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• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Art, Queens

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• I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

  Ellie Goulding

  Sound, Pops

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

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• It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

  Grimes

  Girl, Kind, Pops

  "One to watch: Grimes". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

  Paul Morley

  Rocks, Novelty, Rock Music

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• Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

  Joan Jett

  Style, Threatening, Pops

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• I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.

  Girl Talk

  Interesting, Ironic, Want

  Source: uproxx.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

  Florence Welch

  Rap, Bigs, Pops

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• When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to it just because all my friends were getting into pop music and everything, and I remember I just wasn't interested at all. I liked drawing and science.

  Jens Lekman

  Drawing, Remember, Seven

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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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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• We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

  Oscar Peterson

  Night, Journey, Musician

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