Pop Song Quotes - Page 2

• Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

  Peter Steele

  Song, Writing, Style

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• 'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Beautiful, Song, Opinion

  "Mariah Carey Goes One-for-Four at AMAs". www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2005.

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• That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.

  Reba McEntire

  Country, Song, Eclectic Style

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• It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Depressing, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

  Victoria Justice

  Meaningful, Song, Want

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• When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with [Lady] Gaga or I was on All of the Lights, which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.

  Elton John

  Song, Writing, Light

  "Elton John confirms film project based on his life" by Matthew Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.

  Ellie Goulding

  Girl, Song, Thinking

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

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• In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

  Brian Eno

  Song, People, Track

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• The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

  Jonathan Davis

  Song, Real, Kids

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• I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.

  Phil Collins

  Song, Talking, Albums

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

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• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

  Camille Paglia

  Song, Emotional, Vocabulary

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• In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Loneliness, Boys

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• I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

  Julian Casablancas

  Song, Simple, Focus

  "Strokes frontman: 'I was hung over for two years'". Interview with Quinn Brown, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2009.

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• My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

  Christina Perri

  Song, Children, Memories

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

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• I think [Hollywood] has achieved everything they’ve always dreamed of. The audience now seems to be very dumb. They pay money to watch the same film. Now, you could argue, that's because it makes them feel comfortable. When they go to a movie now, it's almost like hearing a pop song. You know the rhythms, you know when the downbeat is going to come, you know when the explosion is going to come… And so as life becomes more complex, as the economy is in trouble, people cling to what makes them comfortable, so they go again and again to see the same movie.

  Terry Gilliam

  Song, People, Watches

  "Terry Gilliam Talks The 'Simplistic' Films Of Steven Spielberg, Dumbing Down Of Audiences, ‘Don Quixote’ Start Date & More" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. January 07, 2014.

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• Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time

  Paul Muldoon

  Song, Average, Years

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• There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Hate, Thinking

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• To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it’ll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it’ll be in the world forever.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Forever, Special

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• Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney.

  Meg Ryan

  Song, Childhood, Joining

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• If you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Song, Pops, Supposed To Be

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)”, p.99, Random House

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• I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. It is, but there are a lot of times where people treat it like a sport - there are tricks you can pull, different combinations that make something better. I don't really think I approach it that way, but I definitely have a love for the science that is pop song writing.

  Halsey

  Sports, Song, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I could be inspired by something I see or something I hear and write down or send to a friend or a writer or whether I have instrumental tracks or just a couple chords recorded on my phone. If I have a couple sessions set, I'll go into the studio with the people I'm lucky enough to call my friends because I feel like I can talk to them and then suddenly our conversations turn into these songs you hear on the radio. I still don't understand how it happens but I talk about my experiences and my situations and everything and then they turn into these amazing pop songs.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?

  Zola Jesus

  Song, Mean, Disease

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. July 29, 2014.

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• I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

  Leon Bridges

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Leon Bridges Comes Home". Interview with Steven Edelstone, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2015.

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