Pop Song Quotes - Page 4

• Britons still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.

  Rachel Maddow

  Song, Black, Battle

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• In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.

  David Byrne

  Song, Names, Listening

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• Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

  Michael Caine

  Song, Growing Up, Pirate

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• One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Nice, Musical

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• I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.

  Gwenno

  Song, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't try to approach things any differently, songwriting-wise, regardless of what I'm doing. I try to write whatever the best thing is that I'm doing that day. If I'm working on a pop song, I'm working on a pop song to the best of my ability. If I'm working on a bluegrass song, it's the same thing. They're not really different parts of the brain.

  Chris Stapleton

  Wise, Song, Writing

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• I love writing pop songs and I love the challenge. I love melodies and wanted it to be classy. I wanted it to have some substance because I feel as if I have a lot of things to say and wanted it to have something to it.

  Courtney Jaye

  Song, Writing, Challenges

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• At the end of the day, I think that music lovers are going to love me. I think the pop songs that are on my album will be loved by the pop listeners and the R&B songs will be loved by the R&B people. I think that each song has a broad enough sound that I won't be pigeon holed. At the same time I think it is appealing to many different audiences.

  Chrisette Michele

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Chrisette Michele: Unifying Music". Singersroom Interview, singersroom.com. June 18, 2007.

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• 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

  Jake Epstein

  Song, Dark, Haunting

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• I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Song, Reading, Heart

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that mean less and less the more you think about them. So I'm going to have to go with the Gallagher brothers.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Song, Brother, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am a pop girl! And I'm on a major label. I enjoy singing pop songs.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Song, Singing

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• I think I have a vested interest in thinking that the lyrics are important, but I think for us it's important that we all write things that mean something to us, and I think we're not really in the business of writing la-la-love-you chart pop songs. It needs to have a personal pulling in the gut for me, to want to write anything about it.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Love You, Writing

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• When I originally wrote "Jealousy," it was more like an exercise to try to write a girl-group kind of pop song. It was really contrary to most of the material I'd ever written. I didn't pay much attention to the song after I'd recorded it. I didn't really perform it at all the last 20 years. When it came time to make the new record, I decided to make peace with the song and have fun with it.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Song, Fun

  "Paradise is here: an interview with Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• The good thing is in my case I'm all about love and communications, so there was no hard feelings, it was like ok we reached the end of this season and I wish you well and it's time to move on. As a pop song it's definitely open to many different interpretations, I received a call from a cousin saying that it helped her heal after an abusive relationship and another friend said it represented her of a summer fling. We tried to write carefully so that it can be relatable to cover a wide audience.

  Alyson Stoner

  Summer, Song, Cousin

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I appreciate short, perfect pop songs.

  Emily Kokal

  Song, Appreciate, Perfect

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.

  John Britt Daniel

  Song, Writing, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I really got into psych because everything has a really good groove to it and it's nicely spaced out, but ultimately they are just cool pop songs with a little something else that makes them special and unique. They are interesting and have another dimension to them besides a three chord change.

  Mike Romano

  Song, Psych, Unique

  Source: auralstates.com

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• Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.

  Parker Posey

  Song, Aftermath, Pops

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.

  Sara Bareilles

  Song, Rocks, Flip

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.

  Jason Diamond

  Song, Heart, Bleeding

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.

  St. Lucia

  Song, Details, Form

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Girl, Song, I Like You

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.

  David Nicholls

  Song, Falling In Love, Book

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