Quotes About Pop

I've done bits of writing for other people but when I'm writing music as Years & Years, I'm using my life and my stories and my experiences. I want it to be authentic and real but also to work as a pop song - I never want to just put in a cheesy line.

When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.

I think pop music was going through a phase where it was like pop but dance-hall or pop but R&B. But, no, I just want a pop song.

I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.

I feel like I'm a pop star without being a diva.

2017 saw a slew of big pop and hip-hop records, a number of breakout female singer-songwriters and all-girl bands, and the return of beloved '60s soul artist Don Bryant and pop star Kesha.

I don't really see myself as a pop star. I guess I just really enjoy being able to play my music for people who actually want to listen to it.

As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of the '80s.

The way he tells it, George Michael was born to be a pop star. It's as if nothing else really mattered during his childhood. Even the name was part of the pop creation.

I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.

I admire pop stars, and there's parts of that world I'm glad I don't have to go through. It takes a lot of work to do the things they do.

Everyone we knew was forming a band. Boy George, Wham! Sade. But it wasn't a big deal, they were our friends. It wasn't like we were hanging out with pop stars.

In the late 1940s, there weren't any pop stars, and TV didn't exist.

That's what I want to put out into the world - just stuff I love, tributes to my favorite pop stars.

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.

Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.

I love a good, poppy chorus.

I entered music at a poppy level.

Like a lot of the newer bands, like the more poppy kinda bands, although they make really good records and they produce them really great and everything, they don't really deliver onstage. And I think that's where like the heavier bands kinda score.

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.