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“I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.”

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Author:Robert Wyatt

“Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.”

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Author:Siobhan Fahey

“I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual”

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Author:Lady G

“Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.”

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Author:Kristin Hersh

“Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).”

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Author:Julian Casablancas

“I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.”

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Author:Jane Siberry

“Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.”

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Author:Cliff Martinez

“The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.”

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Author:Juliana Hatfield

“You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.”

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Author:David Chase

“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.”

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Author:Lorde

“Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.”

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Author:Bruce Sterling

“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.”

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Author:John Lydon

“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.”

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Author:James Iha

“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.”

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Author:Max Greenfield

“I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.”

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Author:Danny Boyle

“I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.”

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Author:Darren Criss

“The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.”

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Author:Jack Antonoff

“I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.”

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Author:Kara DioGuardi

“So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.”

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Author:David Guetta

“Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!”

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Author:Michel Gondry

“Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.”

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Author:Paul Epworth

“We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.”

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Author:Charles Kelley

“I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.”

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Author:Gary Kemp

“Pop music should be about young people.”

People Should Young Pops Pop Music

Author:Gary Kemp