Pops Quotes - Page 37

• We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

  Alice Nutter

  Mother, Trying, Band

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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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• Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I made the record I don't look at the music by classifying it. People have a problem classifying me as pop, or rock, or folk, or alt. The beauty for me is that a thirteen year old girl can fall in love with the record and so can her mom. I tend to gravitate towards artists that are timeless and don't sound dated.

  Courtney Jaye

  Girl, Mom, Falling In Love

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• Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars

  Darren Hayes

  Baby, Stars, School

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• Stylistically speaking I would put us in the pop/rock vein. Although our songs tend to have a darker or moodier current running through them than usual pop/rock. I would say our music is very honest. We're not trying to be anybody or anything for anyone

  Sherri DuPree

  Running, Song, Rocks

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• I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.

  Christian Fennesz

  Rocks, Guitar, Years

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• Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst others singer Wolfgang Riechmann (Sky Records released his only solo album Wunderbar shortly after his death in 1978) and drummer Wolfgang Flür (later on Kraftwerk, now solo). The music of S.o.S. in the mid 60's first was the English pop and rock music of the times (Beatles, Kinks, Rolling Stones ).

  Michael Rother

  Guitar, Sky, Rocks

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• Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.

  Heather Headley

  Song, Different, World

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• I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.

  Laura Pausini

  Artist, Personality, Houston

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• The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces, or that you couldn't see so many of Oscar Micheaux's really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in '20s and '30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive.

  Guy Maddin

  Independent, America, Race

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's funny how film is the slowest art form to adapt to freedom. It's had freedom all along. It could've done whatever it wanted to. You know the same freedom that do-it-yourself punk and post-punk musicians had in the late 70s and ever since. That's about the time I started getting interested in film, and I assumed that film would be moving along with the other pop culture forms. Its finally done it but it's taken decades for it to catch up just to basement band level.

  Guy Maddin

  Art, Moving, Taken

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We understand that ISIS is a group that's growing in its governance of territory. It's not just Iraq and Syria. They are now a predominant group in Libya. They are beginning to pop up in Afghanistan. They are increasingly involved now in attacks in Yemen. They have Jordan in their sights. This group needs to be confronted with serious proposals.

  Marco Rubio

  Sight, Isis, Iraq

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.

  Laurie Foos

  People, Dollars, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elvis when Rhona Barrett wrote her column about the stars. And so it seeped in.

  Laurie Foos

  Mom, Stars, House

  Source: therumpus.net

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• MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.

  Megan Alexander

  Fun, Awards, Mtv

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.

  Thighpaulsandra

  Style, Juxtaposition, Pop Music

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Pop stars exist in a different space, one not necessarily tied to a patriotism. So Rihanna is everyone's. She doesn't just belong to America, even though she's a creation of America.

  Jonas Carpignano

  Stars, America, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big.

  Jonas Carpignano

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

  Charles Koch

  Brother, Father, Son

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• Most pop albums I was looking at as examples to point out production elements had a song that made you want to dance. I've been listening to electronic music forever and I just wanted to have something dancey.

  Michelle Chamuel

  Song, Forever, Listening

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.

  Peter Menzel

  Sex, Stars, Children

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• Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.

  Bill Laswell

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.

  Jonny Lang

  People, Type, Website

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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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• I think when you write every song on your album - it's like having eleven or twelve children. It's hard to say I like this one song more or I like that one more. I love every song on the album. What's happening is that I'm hoping that everyone will be very satisfied. I think the single "Good Girl" will be adored by the people in the urban world and I think the "Best of Me" will be loved by people in the pop world.

  Chrisette Michele

  Girl, Song, Children

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

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