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Quotes About Pop

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
~ John Lydon
given a choice between listening to Britney Spears and having a blocked aorta, I'd pick the latter)
~ Etgar Keret
I'd say dance is as relevant to us as, say, pop. It's as relevant as electronica, as relevant as ambient or experimental music. I wouldn't say it's something we spend more time on than any other genre.
~ James Righton
Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.
~ Paul Gilbert
Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat.
~ Jennifer Egan
Say what you want about Maroon 5 not making music like the kind found on 'Songs About Jane,' the fact remains that they know how to write a really good pop song that highlights lead singer Adam Levine's falsetto.
~ Phoebe Robinson
ABBA songs are so anthemic, and so ingrained in your system, that you can't really remember when you heard them.
~ Hugh Skinner
Somebody DM'd me like, 'Bruh, you remind me so much of Michael Jackson.' I was like, 'What? That's a bar.'
~ Gunna
I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.
~ Andrea Bocelli
I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.
~ Ville Valo
I think that there's not always been queer person of color representation in pop and so I'm making the most of it because that is who I am.
~ MNEK
I can speak for pop music and representation is nowhere near where it should be. We're taking inspiration from black people but why am I not seeing more black people?
~ Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
~ Maluma
Pop country is about being so clean and perfect and not having any rough edges or imperfections. It's all manufactured.
~ Hank Williams III
It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.
~ Jeffrey Katzenberg
I'm glad that someone like Bieber is coming to India.
~ Anu Malik
When pop can no longer muster a nihilation of the World, a nihilation of the Possible, then it will only be the ghosts that are worthy of our time.
~ Mark Fisher
Bow Wow Wow were one of the few punk bands who weren't afraid to embrace pop.
~ Gavin McInnes
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.
~ Bob Geldof
From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives, let's make this descent into the lower registers together and recognize the good, nasty fun of 'Gone Girl,' Chicago writer Gillian Flynn's novel about the mysterious disappearance of a clever and deceptive young Midwestern housewife.
~ Alan Cheuse
I feel like, genre-wise, the walls are coming down in Nashville. There are so many writers who have moved to town from all walks of life. There's this immense respect for country, but there are pop songwriters, R&B. Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.
~ Maren Morris
I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.
~ Elaine Paige
I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional.
~ Charli XCX
Beautiful evening, ain't it?' Pop said. Once again, caught in his own web of enchantment, he turned to stare at an evening distilled now into even deeper gold by the lower angle of light falling across still seas of buttercups and long-curled milky waves of may.
~ H.E. Bates