“I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.” PeopleLongCountryWholeSongSoundLong TimePopsLabelsLong Time AgoGave UpPop Song Author:David Nail
“If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.” IfsMeanSoundMusic IsPopsNoiseUncomfortablePop Music Author:Merzbow
“There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.” SoundPopsDevelopingChineseDefiniteShockedAmerican Music Author:Paul Oakenfold
“It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.” MenWantWritingTryingKidsJobsCultureCausesSoundPopsMy TimeOld ManPop Culture Author:R. L. Stine
“I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.” ThinkingKnowsImportantLiteratureSoundPiecesNew YorkPopsRadicalOccasionalNew York Times Author:David Talbot
“I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.” LittlesI CanSoundVoiceCan DoPopsI've Learned Author:Chely Wright
“It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.” I CanSongSoundHusbandHarmonyPopsYour HusbandHaggard Author:Trisha Yearwood
“If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.” IfsPlaySoundRecordsPopsCracksSubstitutesFryingFrying Pans Author:Tom Waits
“The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.” PeopleKnowsDoeTwoIdeasCountrySometimesSongThreeSoundAudienceKnow HowWrittenRocksStrangePopsContemporaryAppealsThemeFascinatedRock Music Author:Ryan Adams
“Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.” FirstsHeartMomentsMightSoundFailingStandardsAskingPopsOpeningFinding YourselfSwingsChordsBerlinCdsPop MusicLoadedSmitten Book:Songbook Source: Songbook
“I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.” ThinkingWayWritingI CanAbleSongSoundReadyPopsConsistentFlatsSatisfyingPop Song Author:Leon Bridges
“I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.” SoundPopsPop Music Author:Ellie Goulding
“There's this bubblegum pop thing which is prevalent now that we haven't had before. People's ears are slightly de-tuned; they've been exposed to this weird synthetic, implausibly upbeat, Mickey Mouse stuff which I think is just weird; it's not really a human sound.” PeopleThinkingHumansStuffSoundHavensEarsPopsExposedMiceMickeySyntheticUpbeat Author:Teddy Thompson
“There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory. I love what I've done and I just can't stand to see what they're doing to it. But I've learned to live with it because that's what they've done. They've come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It's not country anymore.” PeopleCountryDoneSoundModernGloryPopsI've LearnedDislike Author:George Jones
“You can only write so many pop songs before they all sound the same. I got to a point where something overtly melodic and straightforward sounded sort of cheesy to me. Pop songs seemed too manufactured.” WritingSongSoundPopsStraightforwardCheesyPop Song Author:Dylan Baldi
“I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.” ArtistSoundPopsContemporaryPop Art Author:Patti LuPone
“I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition. I think a lot of things in life are understood that way. But you internalize these things; they don't really pop out. Certain things are built inside - little areas of understanding. I feel that I live in darkness and confusion, and I'm trying, like we all are, to make some sort of sense of it.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingLittlesIdeasFeelingsCertainUnderstandingSoundDarknessComfortableUnderstoodBuiltAreasPopsIntuitionConfusionThings In LifeLove FeelingImages Of Love Author:David Lynch
“To us, it's vey natural. Initially, it sounded kind of strange to people, because it is different to put traditional Irish music in a pop and rock mode. But they get used to it -- it is our sound.” PeopleKindDifferentUsedSoundNaturalRocksStrangePopsTraditionalIrish Music Author:Andrea Corr
“I always have looked at "indie" as a term of "independence." Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant "popular" to me it didn't define a sound. And I think now that has been the context for things. If something is indie, it almost has this sonic association with it, or pop has become this term of shame almost, like, bubblegum sweet pop.” IfsThinkingWayHas BeensSoundTermSweetShameIndependencePopsAssociationGesturesPop Music Author:Solange Knowles
“I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.” WayBigsArtistCertainSoundRecordsPopsHearingSellingMainstreamPop MusicFussy Author:Nick Lowe
“I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.” UsedSoundCrazyMusic IsRadioPopsUsed To BeDiversePop Music Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I've worked with everyone from Ice Cube to Snoop Dogg ... right across to working with pop stars like Justin Timberlake. Why those artists came to me is because they wanted my sound.” WantedArtistStarsSoundPopsIceJustinPop StarsCubes Author:Paul Oakenfold