Pop Song Quotes

• All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

  Kesha

  Song, Men, Names

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

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• A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it's impossible to have a bad cupcake. In New York you walk everywhere. So I'm always looking, always on the eternal search for the perfect cupcake. I take them very seriously. It's like hunting and gathering for me.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Song, New York, Hunting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

  Sting

  Song, Albums, Body

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• When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love you." And then you try to figure out some rhyme for that, and there never is one.

  Stephin Merritt

  Song, Love You, Trying

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• Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

  Bruce Sterling

  Song, Writing, Cynical

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Rocks, Different

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

  Andrew Dominik

  Song, Pops, Wanted

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• It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.

  Rob Zombie

  Running, Song, Rap

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• I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.

  Nelly Furtado

  Song, Rap, Writing

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• It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Depressing, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Writing, Keys

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• Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them in there, and then moved to New Zealand. Before that I'd lived for a long time in south London where reggae was the music of the streets around me. You'd hear it booming out of people's windows and shops, and you could buy great old reggae singles for 50p (NZ1.30) in second hand shops. I'd always loved that sound, so soon after we got here I started making electronic dub records with my mate Rakai Karaitiana as International Observer.

  Tom Bailey

  Song, Writing, Hands

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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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• All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Play, Appreciate

  "The Multi-Instrumentalist Returns: A Conversation With Andrew Bird". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Everybody has had the experience of something they love - whether it's a pop song or a painting or a movie - feeling so perfect to them that it's almost like it came from another planet. It has nothing to do with ordinary life, which is very plain. And there's something depressing about that in a way, because you feel like you're this small little human, and you feel like it has nothing to do with you.

  Will Sheff

  Depressing, Song, Perfect

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think it's something that really speaks in your head - a very strong melody. But at the same time, if the song doesn't have some kind of edge to it, if there isn't something a little off about it or something very intense or loud or abrasive in some way, it just comes off as a stupid pop song.

  Mikal Cronin

  Song, Strong, Stupid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to write pop songs and the stuff I write is fairly poppy, so I thought maybe my lot in life was to write pop songs for people. It never felt right writing songs for other people to sing, though.

  Aaron Bruno

  Song, Writing, People

  "AWOLNATION Confronts the Megalith". Interview with Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2011.

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• In my head I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, Damn, that's a pop song! I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people. Right up until then, though, I think, "Of course everybody feels this way. This song's the same as the Greek national anthem."

  M.I.A.

  Song, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am saying what comes out, because I'm really not a methodical writer. I'm not a good building writer, where you are like "well, I going to make a song today, and I think it will be a pop song." Some people are great at it and it's beautiful. If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.

  William Fitzsimmons

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Progress, Rough

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We kind of write pop songs, but we don't fit in the pop world. We're really bad at being pop stars and walking down red carpets. We've got our own little bubble, which we really like. We've learned to really like that.

  Katie White

  Song, Writing, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Thinking, Kind

  "Postal service album keeps on delivering" by Rodrigo Perez, www.mtv.com. September 16, 2004.

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• Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

  Tim Finn

  Song, Writing, Pops

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

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• Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose, but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  Hal David

  Song, Rap, Writing

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

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• Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

  Peter Steele

  Song, Writing, Style

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