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“What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.”

Stills Ends Folks Pops Pop Music Folk Music

Author:Bono

“I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.”

Music Darkness Music Is Pops Trash Pop Music Escapists

Author:Thom Yorke

“I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.”

Three Four Minutes Pops Pop Music

Author:Danny Boyle

“Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.”

Bigs Pops Pop Music

Author:Danny Boyle

“Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.”

Music Rocks Pops Rock N Roll Pop Music Rock Music

Author:Bono

“You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.”

Knows Gone Military Pops March Pop Music

Author:James Patterson

“The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.”

People Knows Song Listening Pops Unhappy Unhappiness Pop Music Sad Song Unhappy Life

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.”

Feelings Remember Forever Knowing Changed Jazz Addiction Pops Recovery Not Alone Pop Music Amy

Author:Lady Gaga

“I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.”

People Feels Believe Art Lost I Believe Inspiring Needed I Believe In Pops Pop Music Lost Art

Author:Jazmine Sullivan

“Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.”

Thinking Should Trying Easy Pops Rock N Roll Pop Music

Author:Robert Wyatt

“In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?”

Ifs Children Seems Faces Artist England Pops Memorable Pop Music

Author:Steven Morrissey

“Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual music, I'm not interested in objectivity, quite the opposite. I want a solely and totally subjective experience...A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.”

Want Children Together Song Music Is Opposites Pops Stealing Pockets Rough Songwriting Not Interested Subjective Objectivity Pop Music Get Together Dave Cassettes

Author:Ian Anderson

“I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen.”

Band Pops Queens Pop Music

Book:Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture

Source: Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture

“I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music.”

Made Goal Pops Made It Pop Music

Author:Lady Gaga

“I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago”

Want Years Made Lasts Sound Goal Revolution Years Ago Pops Made It Pop Music Presumptuous

Author:Lady Gaga

“When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.”

World Important Spiritual Fans Important Things Pops Meant To Be Pop Music

Author:Johnny Marr

“That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.”

Country Wonderful Flow Pops Wonderful Things Pop Music Scientism Ebb And Flow

Author:Steven Curtis Chapman

“Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain.”

Kind Country Music Is Pops Singers Spain Pop Music

Author:Marta Sanchez

“I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.”

Stills Enjoy Music Radio Pops Tunes Pop Music

Author:Kim Wilde

“I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.”

Mean States Whole Influence Grew Grew Up Music Is Pops Whole Life 80s Pop Music

Author:Enrique Iglesias

“I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.”

Pops Adoration Pop Music Cheesy

Author:Darren Criss

“The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del Shannon, The Flamingos, The Platters, whatever I could get my hands on. And then some musical things, like Camelot, Singing in the Rain and Hair.”

Firsts Hands Hair Singing Rain Musical Pops Nine Pop Music Bros Camelot Shannon Flamingos Singing In The Rain

Author:Will Oldham

“I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme.”

People Thinking Knows Way Writing Stills Seems Song Stuff Emotion Know How Pops Delicate Plastic Rhyme Pop Music Subtlety Personal Stuff

Author:John Lennon

“It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.”

People World Made Artist Generations Influence Talent Pops Performers Pop Music

Author:Dick Clark

“Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?”

Funny Music Pops Miserable Pop Music Funny Music

Author:John Cusack

“Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t enough, Michael then went and single-handedly revolutionized music videos. It’s amazing that today, some twenty-five years later, everyone who makes a pop music video still feels obligated to include a 'group dance' sequence like the one Michael pioneered in 'Beat It'. That’s how influential and ahead of the times he was.”

Ifs Feels Years Stills Enough Today Five Groups Lessons Beats Twenties Pops Video Five Years Sequence Influential Pop Music Twenty Five

Author:Marcus Miller

“Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.”

Humans Car Authority Pops Resistance Rebellion Covered Human Experience Pop Music

Author:Tom Morello

“There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.”

Thinking Stills Real Young Culture Girl Growing Up Growing Angry Feminist Pops Hearing Supposed To Be Revelations Young Women Pop Music

Author:Kathleen Hanna

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

Soul Pops Pop Music Versatile Gospel Music Sam Cooke

Author:Aaron Neville

“Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever.”

People Ifs Important Soul Lasts Remember Spirit Music Millions Forever Records Like You Sells Jazz Pops Classical Music Jazz Music Pop Music Remember You Remembers You Spirit And Soul

Author:Freddie Hubbard

“If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.”

People Ifs Trying Play Shows Example Pops Tunes Pop Music Show Tunes

Author:Bobby Short

“A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.”

Children Music Is Pops Stealing Pockets Rock N Roll Pop Music

Author:Ian Anderson

“As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.”

Trying Challenges Quality Pops Nine Producers Inches Nails Pop Music

Author:Grimes

“Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.”

World Faces Numbers Technology Changed Rounds Pops Horns Pop Music Horny

Author:Pete Waterman

“We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.”

Night Journey Ten Musician Jazz Pops Tunes Every Night Jazz Music Pop Music

Author:Oscar Peterson

“I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.”

Hate All Things Pops Pop Music

Author:Ani DiFranco

“If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.”

Ifs Writing Heart Song Honest Honesty Pops Sincere Pop Music

Author:Jon Secada

“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.”

Thinking Want Writing Kind Seems Wish Stuff Deals Groups Stage Kissing Ultimate Pops Pop Music Headings

Author:Eric Burdon

“The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.”

Knowing Music Is Jazz Pops Hearing Pop Music Soaking

Author:Norman Granz

“I consider the Stooges to be pop music.”

Pops Pop Music Stooges

Author:Siobhan Fahey

“I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.”

Whole Culture Passion Pops Massive Ongoing Fascination Pop Music

Author:Siobhan Fahey

“And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.”

Littles Dream Language Bits Nice Little Bit Beats Harmony Pops Telling The Truth Pop Music Some Nice American Language

Author:Dan Bern

“I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.”

Feels Wanted Sound Listening Grew Type Grew Up Music Is Pops Flavor Pop Music Taiwan

Author:Coco Lee

“I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.”

Kind Book Used Shapes Pops All Kinds Chords Pop Music

Author:Mick Taylor

“Disco is just pop music you can dance to.”

Pops Rock N Roll Pop Music Disco Disco Music

Author:Sheena Easton

“Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.”

Thinking Way Simple Music Is Complexes Pops Complicated Strikes Pop Music Resonance

Author:Tim Gane

“I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.”

Littles Doe Different Bits Little Bit Pops Pop Music

Author:Kris Allen

“Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.”

Pops Applause Pop Music Chorus

Author:Lady Gaga

“I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.”

Wanted Voice Essentials Elements Pops Pop Music Aquariums

Author:Brian Eno

“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”

Firsts Persons Whole Pops Occasional Pop Music First Person Intrusion

Author:Brian Eno

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