Pop Music Quotes

• Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

  John Cusack

  Funny, Music, Miserable

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

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Darkness, Trash

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• 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

  Party, May, Kind

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

  Bono

  Ends, Pops, Folks

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• Pop music will never be low brow.

  Lady Gaga

  Lows, Pops, Brows

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

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

  Britney Spears

  Song, Writing, Down And

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

  Bono

  Music, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• 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.

  Adele

  Soul, Sometimes, Pretentious

  "Heart & Soul" by Julie Vadnal, www.elle.com. February 24, 2011.

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• Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

  Sheena Easton

  Disco Music, Rock N Roll, Pops

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• I don't like pop music.

  Michael Jackson

  Pops

  "Interview with Trevin Wax". www.imdb.com.

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

  Miley Cyrus

  Zero, Pops, Really Weird

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• If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

  Michael Jackson

  Relationship, Inspiring, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Feb 27, 2017

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• I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.

  Nina Simone

  Song, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.musicismysanctuary.com

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

  Lady Gaga

  Applause, Pops, Chorus

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

  Paul Morley

  Enchantment, Moral, Deceitful

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• 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.'

  Joan Jett

  Rocks, Want, Rock N Roll

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• Pop music is the one genre that isn't a genre. If the kids like it, then that's what defines it as pop music. Pop music is just something new.

  Greg Saunier

  Kids, Something New, Music Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Kate Bush

  States, Pops

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I am totally unapologetic about pop music.

  Mika

  Unapologetic, Pops

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• You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.

  James Patterson

  Military, Gone, March

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

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Pops, Happenings

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• I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music.

  Lady Gaga

  Goal, Pops, Made

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

  Jac Holzman

  Queens, Band, Pops

  Jac Holzman, Gavan Daws (1998). “Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture”, First Media Books

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• 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

  Thinking, Want, Pops

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• The use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player who doesn't have much to say, for example, can make me wish to leave the church immediately, whereas one great jazz or classical guitarist can confirm that I will have a spiritual experience in the church.

  Dave Brubeck

  Spiritual, Player, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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