Quotes About Pop Music

#1. I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Ani DiFranco

#2. I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

Ayshay

#3. There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.

Neil Tennant

#4. I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

Jackie Evancho

#5. I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

Jana Kramer

#6. The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

James Mercer

#7. There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

Joe Goddard

#8. I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

Frank Zappa

#9. The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

Tove Styrke

#10. I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.

David Archuleta

#11. I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

Danny Boyle

#12. The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.

Duncan Sheik

#13. In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated.

David Grubbs

#14. I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for British pop music that did pretty well, but I've mainly been working on my own stuff with Duncan Sheik.

Matthew James Thomas

#15. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

Nick Hornby

#16. For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

Aleksey Igudesman

#17. I love pop music ... some hip hop ... not super big into rap, but I love Rihanna. I love Alicia Keys. Rihanna was my first concert I went to. I love her.

Gracie Gold

#18. I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

Kim Wilde

#19. I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

Robyn

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

Thighpaulsandra

#21. I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

Morrissey

#22. I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

George Michael

#23. Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

Matt Tong

#24. Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

Shirley Manson

#25. Connection, he explained, was the essence of pop music, according to his boss, Jimmy Iovine: "Jimmy always says it's all about the connection between the artist and the fans," he says. "This whole business, it's just about that connection.

John Seabrook

#26. We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

Liam Payne

#27. I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

Autre Ne Veut

#28. Music should always be polarizing. What one person likes, somebody else hates. And I hate that kind of snobbery in pop music. The fact that so many people are getting upset over this one song is hysterical. And if people like it, that's great.

Simon Cowell

#29. My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

Becky G

#30. People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

Nicki Minaj

#31. As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and 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.

Halsey

#32. I'm 41, I'm a woman not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music.

Shirley Manson

#33. Pop music has progressed.

Morrissey

#34. I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey and know my pop music. I like it, my voice is good, and I can start out getting confidence without an audience in front of me.

George Carlin

#35. There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.

Kathleen Hanna

#36. There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.

Edgar Winter

#37. I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.

Joe Swanberg

#38. I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

Taraka Larson

#39. Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

Arlo Guthrie

#40. We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.

Stephen King

#41. Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

Lady Gaga

#42. I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

Elizabeth Price

#43. Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever.

Freddie Hubbard

#44. When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt threatened by it. They were always happy when they were listening to Mozart, so if your parents are happy, then you're happy.

William Orbit

#45. Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

Jess Row

#46. God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

Lady Gaga

#47. Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

Cliff Martinez

#48. All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine amazing melodies and honest human emotion. But coming out of the super-super-commerical pop industry in the 90s, maybe people forgot about the fact that pop music can do both of those things.

Robyn

#49. Pop music will never be low brow.

Lady Gaga

#50. I like pop music. I also like the sound of a dying refrigerator. I can listen to that for an hour and a half if I'm in the mood.

Kyp Malone

#51. Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

Halsey

#52. If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.

Magnus Scheving

#53. Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

Michelle Chamuel

#54. I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that.

Taraka Larson

#55. I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.

Marina And The Diamonds

#56. Pop music I have always loved best.

John Lydon

#57. I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Thom Yorke

#58. I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and you polish to make it fit more people or to not be too vulgar or make sure of, 'Can this really play on the radio?' And I like not doing that.

Tove Lo

#59. I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with 'Royals.' I think that song changed everything in the pop scene. All of the sudden, alternative pop music became pop music.

Troye Sivan

#60. I do like pop music. It's that certain thing that it gives you: the adrenaline rush, that instant gratification.

Lorelei Linklater

#61. Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.

Kate Bush

#62. I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual

Lady G

#63. It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'

Malala Yousafzai

#64. If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Bobby Short

#65. I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.

Victoria Williams

#66. Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain.

Marta Sanchez

#67. I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Brian Eno

#68. So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.

Paul Weller

#69. Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

Bono

#70. I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music ... I love big, American pop music.

Florence Welch

#71. As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

Bono

#72. Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

Kristin Hersh

#73. If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

Jon Secada

#74. I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.

Dries Van Noten

#75. Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

Bruce Sterling

#76. Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.

Steven Morrissey

#77. Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.

Percy Sledge

#78. With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

David Byrne

#79. It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.

Gwen Stefani

#80. The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and ... so having that darkness there opens another door.

Andrew Dost

#81. I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

Ellie Goulding

#82. When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.

Johnny Marr

#83. Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

Joan Jett

#84. I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.

Grimes

#85. Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

Lady Gaga

#86. I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

Siobhan Fahey

#87. I am not dogging on non-melodic pop music because I love it, but I am saying that is why the timeless songs are still here. It's because of the melody. As far as what shouldn't be brought back, the high-waisted bikini bottoms.

Julianne Hough

#88. 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

#89. I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

Elvis Costello

#90. I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.

Caitlin Rose

#91. For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.

Solange Knowles

#92. I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

John Lydon

#93. I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.

Christian Fennesz

#94. I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

Nick Lowe

#95. I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.

Jazmine Sullivan

#96. Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Danny Boyle

#97. Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

Casey Spooner

#98. Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Peter Tork

#99. I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

Sam Tsui

#100. I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.

Tyler Hilton