Pop Music Quotes - Page 2

• The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've got to really listen hard to somebody who's doing a good melody and a good lyric.

  Barry Manilow

  Country, Interesting, Gone

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Aaron Neville

  Soul, Pops, Sam Cooke

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• 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.

  Lady Gaga

  Queens, Unique, Men

  "My New Album Is All About the Dark Side of Celebrity, Says Lady Gaga". www.dailyrecord.co.uk. November 27, 2009.

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• 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.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Crazy, Sound, Radio

  Source: www.newnownext.com

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• 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.

  Matt Tong

  Girl, Love You, Mean

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Interesting, Watches, Next

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Vices, Done

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• 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.

  Pete Seeger

  Art, Pops, Fine

  "Show 1 - Play A Simple Melody: American pop music in the early fifties, Part 1". Interview on radio documentary series "Pop Chronicles", digital.library.unt.edu. February 14, 1968.

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• Eventually I would like to reach the stage where I don't have to write about love and kisses and all that stuff. I wish I could write about really ultimate things. That's where I think all of us want to go, really. All the groups seem to be heading towards a kind of pop music that deals with ultimate things.

  Eric Burdon

  Writing, Kissing, Thinking

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• 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.

  David Chase

  Art, Hands, People

  "David Chase's teenage dreams" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 20, 2012.

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• I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.

  Lady Gaga

  Writing, Intellectual, Evolution

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• I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

  Jane Siberry

  Together, Complicated, Pops

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

  Camilla Lackberg

  80s And 90s, Pops, Abba

  "Sweden’s Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg’s Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who? (VIDEO)". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.

  Fred Seibert

  Albums, Coins, Matter

  "Cartoon Hangover Creator Fred Seibert On How You Too Can Get Your Cartoon On The Internet". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2013.

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• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

  Hal Sparks

  Artist, Dust, People

  ChicagoPride.com interview, chicago.gopride.com. May 19, 2010.

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• Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).

  Julian Casablancas

  Kings, Decision, Suffering

  "Stream Julian Casablancas + The Voidz's Tyranny" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.

  Jon Landau

  Believe, Artist, Accomplishment

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• If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

  Merzbow

  Mean, Sound, Noise

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

  Cliff Martinez

  Fashion, Taste, Pops

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

  Ben Folds

  Art, Inspired, Pops

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

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• 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.

  Darren Criss

  Running, Queens, Mean

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• The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.

  Jack Antonoff

  Song, Doors, People

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• 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.

  John Lydon

  Song, Writing, Fake

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• 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.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Parent, Stones, Excited

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• 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.

  David Guetta

  Independent, Needs, Aliens

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

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