Quotes about Pop Music

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. Votes: 4

Pop music will never be low brow. Votes: 3

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins. Votes: 3

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. Votes: 3

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' Votes: 3

I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius. Votes: 3

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. Votes: 2

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. Votes: 2

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? Votes: 2

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. Votes: 2

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't. Votes: 2

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away. Votes: 2

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. Votes: 2

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is. Votes: 2

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. Votes: 2

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it. Votes: 2

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do. Votes: 2

I like to play music that people can feel deeply but it's also interesting to listen to - a nice balance between cathartic and pop music. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same. Votes: 2

It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Disco is just pop music you can dance to. Votes: 1

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music. Votes: 1

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music. Votes: 1

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music. Votes: 1

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music. Votes: 1

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game. Votes: 1

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again. Votes: 1

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really. Votes: 1

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression. Votes: 1

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?' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir. Votes: 1

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised. Votes: 1

You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people. Votes: 1

There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock n' roll in soul, there's rock n' roll in country. When you see people dress, and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock n' roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star, you know? Votes: 1

I don't like pop music. Votes: 0

I love pop music. Who doesn't? Votes: 0

Pop music should be about young people. Votes: 0

I am totally unapologetic about pop music. Votes: 0

Pop music I have always loved best. Votes: 0

God bless pop music and God bless MTV. Votes: 0

I consider the Stooges to be pop music. Votes: 0

I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks. Votes: 0

I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music. Votes: 0

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial. Votes: 0

The function of pop music is to be consumed. Votes: 0

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love. Votes: 0

Pop music is not a threatening style of music. Votes: 0

I wanted to make experimental music out of pop. Votes: 0

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church. Votes: 0

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music. Votes: 0

Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants. Votes: 0

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious. Votes: 0

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera. Votes: 0

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic. Votes: 0

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. Votes: 0

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music. Votes: 0

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word. Votes: 0

Pop music is awesome, but I like to keep changing it up. Votes: 0

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. Votes: 0

You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music. Votes: 0

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids. Votes: 0

I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music. Votes: 0

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States. Votes: 0

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur. Votes: 0

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music. Votes: 0

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth. Votes: 0

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. Votes: 0

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics. Votes: 0

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me. Votes: 0

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop. Votes: 0

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off. Votes: 0

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop. Votes: 0

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting]. Votes: 0

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society. Votes: 0

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it. Votes: 0

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles. Votes: 0

I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music. Votes: 0

I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen. Votes: 0

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. Votes: 0

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music. Votes: 0

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all. Votes: 0

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres. Votes: 0

I listen to zero pop music, which is really weird from someone who makes pop music. Votes: 0

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical. Votes: 0

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired. Votes: 0

I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different. Votes: 0

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life. Votes: 0

I'm really open to different kinds of music, I don't like to limit myself to pop. Votes: 0

I'm 41, I'm a woman not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music. Votes: 0

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music. Votes: 0

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. Votes: 0

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music. Votes: 0

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. Votes: 0

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music Votes: 0

Japanese music was so crazy! The J-pop and everything. I never scooped up an album or anything. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does. Votes: 0

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal. Votes: 0

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work. Votes: 0

Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain. Votes: 0

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater. Votes: 0

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats. Votes: 0

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas. Votes: 0

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes. Votes: 0

I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop. Votes: 0

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change. Votes: 0

Im a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that. Votes: 0

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion. Votes: 0

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write. Votes: 0

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports. Votes: 0

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties. Votes: 0

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though. Votes: 0

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos. Votes: 0

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music. Votes: 0

My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music. Votes: 0

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour. Votes: 0

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music. Votes: 0

I love pop music just as much as I like rap music, or ill-ass hip-hop music, or rock music. Votes: 0

I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika. Votes: 0

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. Votes: 0

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music. Votes: 0

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it! Votes: 0

I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song. Votes: 0

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa. Votes: 0

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music. Votes: 0

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city. Votes: 0

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head. Votes: 0

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy. Votes: 0

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles. Votes: 0

Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel. Votes: 0

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged. Votes: 0

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else. Votes: 0

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads. Votes: 0

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption. Votes: 0

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money. Votes: 0

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have. Votes: 0

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music. Votes: 0

Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally. Votes: 0

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people. Votes: 0

Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment. Votes: 0

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music. Votes: 0

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music. Votes: 0

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop. Votes: 0

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music. Votes: 0

My music is not a particular genre. It's not bubblegum or cheese. It's just good songs, pop songs. It's just my songs. Votes: 0

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come. Votes: 0

In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues. Votes: 0

I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel. Votes: 0

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music. Votes: 0

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that. Votes: 0

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music. Votes: 0

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that. Votes: 0

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach. Votes: 0

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form. Votes: 0

MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure. Votes: 0

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question. Votes: 0

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. Votes: 0

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records. Votes: 0

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react. Votes: 0

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion. Votes: 0

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket. Votes: 0

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. Votes: 0

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music. Votes: 0

I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music. Votes: 0

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music. Votes: 0

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it. Votes: 0

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores. Votes: 0

I'm the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do music that anyone can like and enjoy. Votes: 0

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird. Votes: 0

I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago Votes: 0

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural. Votes: 0

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop. Votes: 0

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two. Votes: 0

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days. Votes: 0

The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business. Votes: 0

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music. Votes: 0

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound. Votes: 0

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that. Votes: 0

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping. Votes: 0

I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast. Votes: 0

Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from. Votes: 0

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting. Votes: 0

I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then. Votes: 0

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal. Votes: 0

There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is. Votes: 0

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer. Votes: 0

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.' Votes: 0

Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music! Votes: 0

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious. I'm fighting this war against all that because pop music, in my opinion, should be fun. Votes: 0

I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that. Votes: 0

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song. Votes: 0

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker. Votes: 0

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time. Votes: 0

People who love R&B will love my music, people who love rock will love my music. It's soulful, it's pop. It's a sound that relates to everyone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening. Votes: 0

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music. Votes: 0

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits. Votes: 0

The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop. Votes: 0

I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process. Votes: 0

I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible. Votes: 0

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face? Votes: 0

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made. Votes: 0

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time. Votes: 0

Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves. Votes: 0

Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me. Votes: 0

I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world. Votes: 0

There are lots of stories in pop music, lots of lush orchestrations, lots of attention to detail. You just have to know where to find them. The best stuff is never overt. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation. Votes: 0

I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence. Votes: 0

You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop. Votes: 0

Showtunes might be able to come back into pop music, which is something we haven't seen since the 50s and 60s. Everything is related to everything else because we're in such a niche industry. Votes: 0

In the history of pop music, a lot of great records cost an enormous amount of money. There used to be a time where people that had means to experiment would do it, you know? Votes: 0

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music. Votes: 0

I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music. Votes: 0

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality. Votes: 0