Quotes About Pop

I love Nirvana, Weezer and a lot of pop punk stuff - Blink-182, I loved.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

Hunx was more punk, and Seth Bogart is more pop and plastic.

I was in bands all through my youth. Things started out more acoustic and then piano ballads. Then R&B followed by sappy pop music and then rock, punk and heavy metal.

A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be: a pop band, definitely, but we've got a rock and punk edge.

I love the spirit of early pop punk and we incorporated that into our earlier albums.

First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.

I feel like I'm a rock artist. I don't feel like I'm a pop artist. And I'm alt rock. I'm indie rock. I'm punk rock. Because it comes from the pots and pans. It's a lot of me, but I've got multiple personalities.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

When an artist becomes pop, it's because the people choose it. Yes, you can have that dream to be a big pop star, but it's the audience that puts you in that position. I never had a paid marketing campaign, it was never like that.

American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be able to tell which from which.

We've never been ashamed of the fact we are, first and foremost, a pop band.

Frank Farian and me are the sound of Boney M.

What's good is that my music is different from everyone else's. It's got the soul element, like Duffy, but it's not very retro. It's a contemporary, pop, fresh sound. That's what makes it different.

I liked Rebecca Black's 'Friday.'

It's very difficult to put it into words or really put your finger on exactly what it was that people found so attractive about Wham! But it was a lot to do with George and me and our friendship.

Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is.

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.

Well, I love Take That but l've always been partial to Robbie Williams' songs.

All of my solos are blues based. Even though a lot of my songs get into pop, I wind up going back to the blues. Trying to escape it is like trying to run from the devil.

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.