Quotes About Pop

'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.

I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.

I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies.

Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.

I'm basic. If it's Sia, I'm gonna like it. Her voice is great. She's ruining her voice though, the way she sings.

I like Scissor Sisters.

My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

I love Jessica Simpson. I love her voice. She's amazing.

Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.

I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.

'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's usually what I'm inspired by, what I'm thinking about.

Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.

It was during my stint at Café Society that a song was born which became my personal protest—" Strange Fruit." The germ of the song was in a poem written by Lewis Allen. I first met him at Café Society. When he showed me that poem, I dug it right off. It seemed to spell out all the things that had killed Pop.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

Fashion blurbs, silver and full of nothing, sent up their fishy bubbles in my brain. They surfaced with a hollow pop.