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Quotes About Pop

I think of the Avengers as The Beatles, and the Guardians are the Rolling Stones. That is really how I feel about the groups.
~ James Gunn
I always wanted to merge heavy metal with pop music, but I think that because I grew up more with pop, the Beatles and the Stones, I tended to affiliate myself with those projects.
~ Billy Squier
I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
~ Siobhan Fahey
My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.
~ Lyle Lovett
It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.
~ Andy Partridge
That's the whole point of my trying to achieve success in mainstream pop - to have straight people sing to my music that has a 'she' pronoun in it.
~ Hayley Kiyoko
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
~ Richard Branson
You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.
~ Washed Out
There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.
~ Neil Tennant
Destiny's Child has never broken up officially. So don't be surprised one day if there's a new record or a tour because the group never officially broke up.
~ Mathew Knowles
Are you really into pop? Are you really into old country? Blues? If you're not honest about your influences, then things don't sound as real as they can be. They're not as sharp a cheddar cheese as they can be. And I'm trying to be the sharpest cheddar I can be.
~ Frankie Ballard
I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.
~ Afrojack
Oh my God, imagine if S Club Juniors got back together, I'd love that to happen one day.
~ Frankie Bridge
Art is lost in pop "art" as sport is lost in professional "sport"—which is an oxymoron of the strongest kind. Absurdity reigns, and confusion makes it look good.
~ Dallas Willard
At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day
~ Amy Winehouse
I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.
~ Wesley Morris
The pop star, as we knew her – and here he bowed slightly, in her direction – was actually an artefact of preubiquitous media. Of -? Of a state in which 'mass' media existed, if you will, within the world. As opposed to? Comprising it.
~ William Gibson
Case gradually became aware of the music that pulsed constantly through the cluster. It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop;
~ William Gibson
It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community.
~ William Gibson
And waking, once again, face smudged into Andrea's couch, the red quilt humped around her shoulders, smelling coffee, while Andrea hummed some Tokyo pop song to herself in the next room, dressing, in a gray morning of Paris rain.
~ William Gibson
As they worked, Case gradually became aware of the music that pulsed constantly through the cluster. It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalised pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community.
~ William Gibson
Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
~ Christina Aguilera
I must say, I rather like the Beatles. If the fans just wouldn't scream so.
~ Helene Hanff
Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.'
~ Richard Corliss