Pop Music Quotes - Page 11

• 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

  Beautiful, Practice, Ruins

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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

  Feist

  Simplicity, Joy, Littles

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2012.

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• 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.

  Nina Persson

  Thinking, Pops, Difficult

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• When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea.

  Pat Benatar

  Believe, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think it's important for us to continue to do that, and I don't see enough of it today.

  George Duke

  Healing, Artist, Reflection

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

  Jess Row

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Hip Hop

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres, whereas I was only exposed to the poppiest of pop music so I never had this negative connotation towards pop music. That's not South African music having an effect on me, but just how international music was filtered through South Africa affected me. It gave me a not-negative connotation towards pop music growing up.

  St. Lucia

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I actually do see rock and roll as pop music. I think the distinction I was making was that I was going out of my way to have a very consistent approach to production, where nothing kind of punctures the reality - or, I guess, the fake reality - of the album and what you're listening to from beginning to end.

  Dan Bejar

  Reality, Thinking, Rocks

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the radio. The whole radio thing seems so... it's like they've accepted the whole "new wave" thing only because this kind of pop element came into it. In Europe they really love emotion, but here it's like, "let's stay away from it because we might cry or something".

  Tom Verlaine

  Europe, Elements, Radio

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• 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.

  Johnny Marr

  Genre, Pops, Difficult

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Attention, Stories, Stuff

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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

  Adele

  Girl, Song, East

  "Mad about the girl" by Sylvia Patterson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2008.

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• Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.

  St. Lucia

  Dark, Self, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Joe Goddard

  Stuff, Materialistic, Modern

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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

  Ayshay

  Thinking, Order, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Order, Voice, Comedian

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• Well, I am not sure of when my album will be released but my music has a lot of different sounds. I'm a hip-hop/R&B girl at heart, but I love pop music as well, and I even have an affinity for country music. So I would say my music might have something for everyone.

  Zendaya

  Girl, Country, Heart

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Pop music is awesome, but I like to keep changing it up.

  Chaz Bundick

  Pops, Music Is

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him.

  Bonnie McKee

  Art, Emotional, Thinking

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• I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music.

  Grimes

  Crazy, Ideas, People

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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• 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.

  John Maus

  People, Done, Kind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  Country, Roots, Want

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

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• 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

  Song, Hate, People

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview with Cosmo Girl, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

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• 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

  School, College, Thinking

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• 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.

  Grimes

  Needs, Noise, Kind

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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