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“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.”

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Author:Barry Manilow

“I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.”

People Challenges Pops Pop Music

Author:Kimbra

“I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.”

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Author:Neal Schon

“I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.”

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Author:Gary Numan

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

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Author:Frank Zappa

“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".”

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Author:Tom Verlaine

“When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?”

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Author:Jenny Hval

“Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.”

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Author:Britney Spears

“You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk.”

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Author:Stuart Hamm

“There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.”

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Author:Skrillex

“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.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.”

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Author:Ben Howard

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

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Author:Jessie J

“I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.”

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Author:Jackie Evancho

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.”

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Author:Dana Gould

“The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney.”

Musician Pops Sophisticated Pop Music

Author:Freedy Johnston

“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.”

Thinking Difficult Term Music Is Pops Pop Music Bad Music

Author:Nina Persson

“We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.”

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Author:Alice Nutter

“Our whole mission is about breaking the rules. Cibo Matto doesn't fit into any one genre and when people ask about what kind of genre is it, it's hard to say. We try to do a lot of stuff. People like to categorize, basically. So we always have trouble giving an answer. Pop music has a lot of different elements of music. Even polka too.”

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Author:Miho Hatori

“I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.”

“I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.”

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Author:Thighpaulsandra

“When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big.”

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Author:Jonas Carpignano

“I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.”

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Author:Tonya Mitchell

“I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.”

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Author:Victoria Williams

“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.”

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Author:William Orbit

“I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.”

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Author:Elvis Costello

“Pop music is not a threatening style of music.”

Style Music Is Pops Threatening Pop Music

Author:Joan Jett

“I listen to zero pop music, which is really weird from someone who makes pop music.”

Pops Zero Pop Music Really Weird

Author:Miley Cyrus

“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.”

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Author:Jana Kramer

“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.”

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Author:John Maus

“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.”

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Author:Grimes

“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.”

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Author:Grimes

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

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Author:Jess Row

“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.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“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.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“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.”

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Author:Bonnie McKee

“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.”

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Author:Simon Cowell

“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.”

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Author:Christian Fennesz

“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.”

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Author:Zendaya

“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.”

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Author:George Carlin

“Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.”

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Author:Kate Bush

“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.”

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Author:Dan Bejar

“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.”

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Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo

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

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Author:Ayshay

“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.”

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Author:Johnny Marr

“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.”

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Author:Johnny Marr

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

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Author:Chaz Bundick

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

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Author:Joe Goddard

“The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.”

Want Made Goal Pops Ecstasy Pop Music Uncompromising

Author:Michael Gira

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