Pop Music Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Thinking, Parent, Listening

  Interview with Sarah Williams, www.femalefirst.co.uk. February 4, 2006.

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• I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music.

  Johnny Marr

  Ideas, Bullshit, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

  Danny Boyle

  Song, Score, Pops

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• 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.

  Max Greenfield

  Mean, Men, Car

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

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

  Bruce Sterling

  People, Guy, Political

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Rock N Roll

  "Lorde, 16-Year-Old New Zealand Musician, Talks ‘Royals’ Video, Feminism And More" By Noah Michelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2013.

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

  Juliana Hatfield

  Kids, Rocks, Rock Music

  "Juliana Hatfield Says Goodbye To The Stage, Hello To Art School". Interview with MiddleMojo.com, middlemojo.com.

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• I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

  James Iha

  Mean, Sound, Labels

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• Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual music, I'm not interested in objectivity, quite the opposite. I want a solely and totally subjective experience...A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

  Ian Anderson

  Song, Children, Objectivity

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• 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

  Inspiring, Art, Believe

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• 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

  Song, People, Listening

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

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

  Robbie Williams

  Art, Kind, Form

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• 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?

  Steven Morrissey

  Children, Memorable, Artist

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• This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Bullshit, President

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• 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.

  Serj Tankian

  People, Trying, Remember

  "The Imperfect Harmony Of Serj Tankian". Interview With Chris Carle, www.ign.com. September 27, 2010.

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• I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

  David Gilmour

  Home, Classical Music, Pops

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• 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

  Lady Gaga

  Years, Goal, Sound

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

  Jessie J

  Emotional, Different, Genre

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

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

  Norah Jones

  Art, School, Jazz

  "Oprah Talks to Norah Jones". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. July, 2003.

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

  Peter Tork

  Disco Music, Heavy Metal, Pops

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• 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.

  Pete Waterman

  Technology, Numbers, Horny

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• Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

  Peter Tork

  Vitamins And Minerals, Aspirin, Pops

  "Readers recommend: melancholy songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2015.

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• 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.'

  Pete Townshend

  Mirrors, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Controversial, Easy

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

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• A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

  Ian Anderson

  Children, Pockets, Rock N Roll

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