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“If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.”

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Author:Colin Meloy

“Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.”

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Author:Daniel Lopatin

“My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.”

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Author:Rokia Traore

“Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.”

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Author:Colin Meloy

“When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to it just because all my friends were getting into pop music and everything, and I remember I just wasn't interested at all. I liked drawing and science.”

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Author:Jens Lekman

“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.”

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Author:Matt Tong

“There's something bigger than improvised music versus pop music versus something else. What actually succeeds in being communicated are human feelings, things that people can latch onto and say, "Yeah, I feel like that sometimes." It can be inspiring or it can be something that keeps you sane when you're not feeling well.”

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Author:John Dieterich

“All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.”

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Author:Gustav Ejstes

“Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.”

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Author:Casey Spooner

“So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.”

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Author:Paul Weller

“Pop music is great, but there's a lot of BS about the attitude of guys being super-gangster - that's why the whole thing is silly. It's making fun of itself. That self-awareness is why people enjoy it. It's refreshing.”

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Author:Emily Ratajkowski

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

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Author:Norah Jones

“I'm the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do music that anyone can like and enjoy.”

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Author:Seungri

“Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.”

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Author:Taraka Larson

“I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that.”

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Author:Taraka Larson

“I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.”

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Author:Alan Green

“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.”

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Author:Sammy Hagar

“I just think that pop music is very interesting in how it can reach so many people. I like that I can tell stories and I just wanted to be heard more, I guess. That's why it's pop, but in my mind I don't really view my music as pop, I don't really view it as anything. I just look at it as a picture, I like visuals.”

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Author:Melanie Martinez

“I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.”

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Author:Melanie Martinez

“Showtunes might be able to come back into pop music, which is something we haven't seen since the 50s and 60s. Everything is related to everything else because we're in such a niche industry.”

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Author:Nikka Graff Lanzarone

“I love making music. I feel like people often get into that 'you should only make music for yourself' kind of place, where they say things like, "I don't write for other people, I write for myself," and I feel like that misses the mark so much because music, especially pop music, is so much more than yourself.”

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Author:Thomston

“For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).”

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Author:Teddy Wayne

“I love pop music just as much as I like rap music, or ill-ass hip-hop music, or rock music.”

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Author:Donnis

“I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.”

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Author:Vince Staples

“The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending ruffle of pop's hair while handing it a lollipop. An act of beaming condescension whose transparent message is: "This one guy, and just this one guy, he's so good, he transcends his trivial idiom and elevates himself into our significant one."”

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Author:David Bennun

“The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's that pop music, pop music of any kind, doesn't need the Nobel committee to damn it with the faint praise of such an award to its sole chosen representative.”

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Author:David Bennun

“Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.”

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Author:David Bennun

“Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it.”

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Author:David Bennun

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

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Author:David Gilmour

“I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.”

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Author:Girl Talk

“Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.”

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Author:Paul Morley

“Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.”

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Author:Paul Morley

“Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.”

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Author:Paul Morley

“I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.”

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Author:Paul Morley

“Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.”

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Author:Paul Morley

“Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.”

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Author:Paul Morley

“If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.”

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Author:Paul Morley

“Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.”

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Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“I think everybody don't know what color I am. It's like, "He's not black enough. He's not white enough. He's got a Latin last name but he doesn't have - he doesn't speak Spanish. Who are we selling this to? Are you making urban music? Are you making pop music? What kind of music are you making?"”

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Author:Bruno Mars

“I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.”

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Author:Ben Watt

“Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with our bands, you know? That's obviously changed, because in Europe they're much more interested in bands speaking their own language. Especially in France and Germany. They're starting to develop their own bands much more.”

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Author:James Dean Bradfield

“It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.”

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Author:Thea Gilmore

“I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“I think I get really into comfort music: '60s stuff, '50s stuff like Frankie Avalon. I love it - such simple songs, but so well written. That, and old French pop. I love that, because I don't speak French. It's all just pop music! But I love it because it just makes me focus on the melodies.”

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Author:Michael Benjamin Lerner

“I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.”

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Author:Raphael Saadiq

“My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.”

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