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

    States   Pops   Pop Music  
    Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.
  • 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

    Song   Writing   Trying  
  • Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

    Applause   Pops   Chorus  
  • 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.

    Ghetto   Rocks   Hip Hop  
  • I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.

    Source: lithiummagazine.com
  • I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music.

    Goal   Pops   Made  
  • When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

    "Lorde, 16-Year-Old New Zealand Musician, Talks ‘Royals’ Video, Feminism And More" By Noah Michelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2013.
  • I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

    Hate   Pops   Pop Music  
    "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.
  • You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk.

    College   Weather   Play  
  • I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.

    Path   Produce   Pops  
    Source: www.contactmusic.com
  • That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

  • 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.

  • Pop music is great, but there's a lot of BS about the attitude of guys being super-gangster - that's why the whole thing is silly. It's making fun of itself. That self-awareness is why people enjoy it. It's refreshing.

    Fun   Attitude   Silly  
    "Q&A: Emily Ratajkowski on 'Blurred Lines' and Her Song of the Summer". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. July 22, 2013.
  • I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

  • If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.

  • I think everybody don't know what color I am. It's like, "He's not black enough. He's not white enough. He's got a Latin last name but he doesn't have - he doesn't speak Spanish. Who are we selling this to? Are you making urban music? Are you making pop music? What kind of music are you making?"

    Latin   Thinking   Names  
    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • 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.

    Song   People   Listening  
    Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin
  • Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

    Records   Bob   Firsts  
  • Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

    Mean   Years   Important  
    "Paul Weller: 'You've got to be willing to upset people'". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.
  • My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

  • I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

    Real   Thinking   Damage  
    Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com
  • 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.

    Song   Hate   People  
    "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview with Cosmo Girl, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.
  • In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

    "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.
  • 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.

    Song   Honesty   Writing  
  • I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

    "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.
  • So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

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

    Artist   Voice   Support  
  • In all the music I've done, what I'm really interested in above all else, and I'm not sure it's what one should be interested in, is the kind of - you know, people talk about work progressions, which doesn't really make sense with pop music because there is no progression, because there is no tonic, because there is no more tonality.

    People   Done   Kind  
    Source: thequietus.com
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