Pop Music Quotes - Page 9

• Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

  Paul Morley

  Play, People, Desire

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• If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.

  Paul Morley

  Self, People, Desire

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• I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial, so I'd be hard pressed to feel embarrassed by anything I listen to. Besides, I have a three-year-old, so I don't have time for guilty pleasures anyway!

  Ani DiFranco

  Hate, Guilty, Pleasure

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

  Michael Gira

  Goal, Want, Made

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Live we're a lot louder and noisier on the album. I think for the album we took a lot of time for the songwriting and we wanted to make good pop music, and I think there's plus and minuses to doing pop music and noise.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Thinking, Songwriting

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.

  Thea Gilmore

  Real, Would Be, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Culture, Scientist, Pops

  Source: bookriot.com

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• The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Badass, People, Brave

  "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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• I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Character, Reality

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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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 don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Path, Produce, Pops

  Source: www.contactmusic.com

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• My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.

  Kurt Ralske

  Attitude, Thinking, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Some people who make music are instantly very savvy about how they can get their music to communicate in a larger way. For me, the music was always first, and I put a lot of time and effort and thought into making the recordings. But everything else around it, all the things that were necessary to have a career in pop music, I was completely ill equipped to handle.

  Kurt Ralske

  Careers, People, Effort

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I prefer to feel uncomfortable by participating in projects were I am not the specialist. I am always the one who knows nothing. Playing with jazzmen and knowing nothing about jazz. Playing pop music and knowing nothing about how to structure a pop song. And the funny thing, which still surprises me, is that I continue to be invited to play by new people, from different areas, every day.

  Gaspar Claus

  Song, People, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I feel dance and pop music genres are extremely female and extremely gay. When it comes to art and pop culture, queers are f - king weirdos. We don't have gender rules that tell us what we can and can't be. We just make it up as we go along. We have full creative license to be whatever we want to be.

  Beth Ditto

  Art, Gay, Creative

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If politically infused music is denied airplay, music reviews or festival stage time because it is considered "politics" rather than "art", then there will be no music left to ban. It will never reach the surface anyway, not to the larger audience. I believe that there is a high degree of censorship in the west, most importantly in the form of self-censorship among musicians themselves. This is why what you hear on the radio is - increasingly often - pure and toothless entertainment. Almost by definition, there's nothing left in pop music worth banning.

  Moddi

  Art, Believe, Musician

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Pop music often deals with subject matter like breakups, or you have songs that are like, "I will love you forever," or "you're so hot right now," or "I really feel you," or "We should be together." There aren't that many songs that are like, "I just walked into the room and now I have nothing to say because I feel so awkward because I fancy you so much." There's not as many songs that deal with that awkward bit about love; about how you can really have such a huge crush on someone that actually is completely disabling.

  Shura

  Crush, Breakup, Song

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.

  Patrick Stump

  People, Giving, Idiot

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• 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 like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

  Ben Howard

  Real, Thinking, Damage

  Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com

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• You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Hair, Soul

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• If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.

  Dana Gould

  Music, Fun, Party

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• Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Growing Up, Musical, Listening

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I think everybody don't know what color I am. It's like, "He's not black enough. He's not white enough. He's got a Latin last name but he doesn't have - he doesn't speak Spanish. Who are we selling this to? Are you making urban music? Are you making pop music? What kind of music are you making?"

  Bruno Mars

  Latin, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.

  Ben Watt

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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