Pops Quotes - Page 26

• My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

  Haley Reinhart

  Dad, Latin, Rocks

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• My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

  Lauren Alaina

  Country, My Favorite, Type

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• I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.

  Hollie Cavanagh

  Soul, Albums, Littles

  "'American Idol' Castoff Hollie Cavanagh Stands by Her Song Choice, Despite Jimmy Iovine's Criticism" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose, but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  Hal David

  Song, Rap, Writing

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

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• Eventually I would like to reach the stage where I don't have to write about love and kisses and all that stuff. I wish I could write about really ultimate things. That's where I think all of us want to go, really. All the groups seem to be heading towards a kind of pop music that deals with ultimate things.

  Eric Burdon

  Writing, Kissing, Thinking

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• With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

  Frank Sinatra

  Holiday, Years, Musical

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• Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.

  Glen Hirshberg

  Impressive, Alchemy, Melody

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• How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Grass, Prozac, Playgrounds

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• Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

  Max Cannon

  Events, Culture, Yeah

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• The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

  Norman Granz

  Knowing, Hearing, Jazz

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• I don't want to be in front of the camera forever. I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever. I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me. I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.

  FKA twigs

  Stars, Sick, Forever

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• If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

  Buddy Holly

  Rocks, Play, Rock N Roll

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• I have something to tell you non-smokers that I know for a fact that you don't know, and I feel it's my duty to pass on information at all times. Ready?. . . . Non-smokers die every day . . . Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You're dead too.

  Bill Hicks

  Reality, Information, Evening

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• I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

  Count Basie

  Real, Play, Tunes

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• I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Pop Music, Stooges

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• I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Passion, Fascination, Culture

  "Mad About The Music". "The Daily Telegraph", June 13, 1996.

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• I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Jesus, Reflection, Fans

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• If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Play, Together

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• It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

  Howard Schmidt

  Mom, Dollars, Bars

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• And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

  Dan Bern

  Dream, Nice, Littles

  Song: New American Language, Album: New American Language, 2001

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• I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  Coco Lee

  Listening, Sound, Taiwan

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• Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.

  Jay McInerney

  Hero, Rocks, Wish

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• I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.

  Nelly Furtado

  Song, Rap, Writing

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• An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can.' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.

  John Updike

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Running, Nice

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.75, Tuttle Publishing

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