Quotes About Pop

but he did recognize Raymond Scott, a composer who had recently hit it big with a series of whimsical, cacophonous, breakneck pseudo-jazz pop tunes.

I mean, Frank Sinatra is one of the great performers in pop music history. Why shouldn't I be delighted to carry on his tradition?

For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.

I like Katy Perry. I mean, what is there not to like?! She's crazy, she's fun and she has some crazy pipes on her. She can sing.

Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.

I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.

I started out as a pop singer, then pop died down, and I had to dig my feet into Bollywood which is not something I wanted actually.

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

My parents are actually very famous singers in Bulgaria. My dad was in a rock band, and my mom was in a pop group. They met, fell in love, and actually formed a group together to escape the country because it was Communist, and they couldn't leave. They didn't know any English but eventually found their way to America.

My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singers Christophe & Francoise Hardy, which became hits.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

I feel like a lot of pop singers hurt themselves if they don't have the proper training.

For me, I've written and produced for pop singers, but, like, female pop - I love that. I think it's putting me in the game that I love girl pop. All my writing is inspired by it.

All you need in a successful boyband is two great singers and three okay singers and you get can away with it.

To have the sound I have, to pretty much close out a festival, it's something I didn't see much of in school. It was always pop singers and rappers. It's so cool to see that space for R&B getting bigger.

I remember when I got into movies, the only way singers could be heard was to through playback singing in movies. Then gradually came the music companies promoting independent pop singers.

Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.

I enjoy putting out singles.