Pop Music Quotes - Page 7

• What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.

  Julianne Hough

  Wall, Rocks, Singing

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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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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• For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).

  Teddy Wayne

  Wall, Writing, World

  "'My narrator is starving, both literally and metaphorically': Teddy Wayne and Alexandra Kleeman on anxiety and alienation in their new books". www.salon.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Thinking, People, Important

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• People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

  Nicki Minaj

  People, Singing, Want

  "Nicki Minaj: 'I have bigger balls than the boys'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

  Tom Stoppard

  Rocks, Branches, Rock N Roll

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• Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

  James Surowiecki

  Song, Pops, Repetition

  "Paying to Play". www.newyorker.com. July 12, 2004.

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• We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

  Neil Tennant

  Musical, Would Be, Theater

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

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• Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

  Paul Epworth

  Song, People, Language

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• I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.

  Patrick Stump

  Thinking, Four, Letters

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• The function of pop music is to be consumed.

  Pierre Boulez

  Music, Function, Pops

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• I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public. I don't feel it's my place to judge. I just look at things as a fan, I like or or I don't like it.

  Patti Smith

  Judging, Choices, Fans

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Thinking, Rock And Roll

  "Interview: Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna". Interview with Mark Huddle, www.verbicidemagazine.com. June 11, 2007.

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• I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.

  Joe Swanberg

  Song, Attitude, Done

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• I'm 41, I'm a woman, not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music.

  Shirley Manson

  Silly, Kids, Pops

  "Garbage's Shirley Manson on getting the band back together and kissing major labels goodbye". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 23, 2012.

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• After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.

  Stephen Fry

  Stars, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• I always have looked at "indie" as a term of "independence." Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant "popular" to me it didn't define a sound. And I think now that has been the context for things. If something is indie, it almost has this sonic association with it, or pop has become this term of shame almost, like, bubblegum sweet pop.

  Solange Knowles

  Sweet, Thinking, Independence

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

  Todd Haynes

  Memories, Imagination, Unlocking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2007.

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• With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Age, Degrees

  "David Byrne: 'It feels like the end of history in pop music'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

  Nick Lowe

  Artist, Sound, Records

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

  Theo Hutchcraft

  Classical Music, Genres Of Music, Pops

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• I am not dogging on non-melodic pop music because I love it, but I am saying that is why the timeless songs are still here. It's because of the melody. As far as what shouldn't be brought back, the high-waisted bikini bottoms.

  Julianne Hough

  Song, Bikinis, Timeless

  "Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta Talk ROCK OF AGES, the Cut Lap Dance Scene with Tom Cruise, and Recording Their Albums". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 11, 2012.

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• I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

  James Bay

  Kids, Black, Littles

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• Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Struggle, Self, Expression

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• When I would play pop music at underground shows, it was offensive to some people. I wasn't doing it to piss people off: I just didn't believe in those strong divisions that you're supposed to listen to this or that.

  Girl Talk

  Strong, Believe, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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