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Quotes About Pop

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
~ Barry Gibb
Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.
~ Phife Dawg
The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.
~ Dennis Wilson
I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences
~ Lee Ann Womack
Disco is just pop music you can dance to.
~ Sheena Easton
Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
~ Peter Tork
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
~ Bono, On the Move
I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.
~ Ben Howard
Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.
~ Justin Timberlake
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.
~ Paul Morley
I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
~ Mick Taylor
The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
~ John Lennon
I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.
~ Iggy Pop
There are two sides of me, the bachata/tropical Latin side and the English pop as well. They're both equally important, so I'll always make sure to keep both roots in my music.
~ Prince Royce
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
~ Neil Tennant
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
~ Billy Joel
Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?
~ Noel Gallagher
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
~ Lady Gaga
I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
~ Kara DioGuardi
Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.
~ will.i.am
Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.
~ Noel Gallagher
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
~ L.A. Reid
Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.
~ Tom Morello
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
~ John Mayer