Pops Quotes - Page 9

• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

  Walter Becker

  Player, People, Rock N Roll

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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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• Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

  Graham Parker

  Men, Actors, Singers

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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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• I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.

  Amanda McBroom

  Art, Hbo, Ears

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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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• 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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• I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Thinking, Culture, Phenomenon

  "Laurence Fishburne for 'The Matrix Reloaded'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 5, 2003.

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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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• You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.

  Kim Wilde

  Stars, Voice, Needs

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• It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

  Placido Domingo

  Years, Two, Space

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• Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.

  Rita Coolidge

  People, Friendly, Records

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

  Shirley Manson

  Thinking, Looks, Has Beens

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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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• I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Stars, Work Out, Plans

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• Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Inspirational, Heart, Eye

  "Nigel Lythgoe officially returning to ‘American Idol’" by Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. August 05, 2010.

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• I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

  Grace Jones

  Mean, Thinking, Talent

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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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• People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Country, Nice, Thinking

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• I think K-Pop is a type of expression.

  Swizz Beatz

  Thinking, Expression, Type

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

  Danny Boyle

  Song, Score, Pop Music

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

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• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

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• I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

  James Blunt

  Stars, Rocks, Blunt

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

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• Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

  Kathleen Battle

  Showers, Consumption

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