Quotes About Culture

I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.

You had to read what I wrote if you lived in L.A. in 1975 and cared about pop music.

Pop music catches on like a meme. It just takes a little bit of tinder, and it can become a phenomenon. You have to break through that wall a little bit. Why it happens, I don't really know.

Pop music is what touches me the most.

I wanted to show that pop music can be about something else other than the big love songs.

Pop music has been the center of change, you know? And positive messages. I would love to get back to that place because I think we've lost it a little bit.

I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an estimated factor of ten.

Games isn't really pop music, and neither is OPN. Both are part of the same ecosystem and both deal with exploring the undercurrents of pop music.

With a lot of pop music, they just have one song and a good beat, but there's not necessarily that much talent.

My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.

Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.

Rap started as this very black, socio-political type of thing. And now it's turned into pop music - we laugh about how everybody is doing the same thing in all of their songs.

Anyone of any age or background who loved pop music liked our songs.

The great thing about both Indian and Western pop music is that they're fast and have a beat.

We just thought that bands from the U.S. in general were just really boring, and they didn't represent what we felt pop music should be.

I personally don't like to draw a line between 'K-pop' and pop music, but I do think it is a good time for K-pop artists to be shown to the world, because the world is just ready for it.

Lord knows, I love a brainless pop song.

I miss the outspoken pop stars like Lily Allen.

There is so much good music from our scene in the U.K., and I'm happy I'm part of that movement. For a long time, we were trying to do what the Americans were doing, we were trying to do what the pop stars from England were doing, and we just didn't understand.

Everyone we knew was forming a band. Boy George, Wham! Sade. But it wasn't a big deal, they were our friends. It wasn't like we were hanging out with pop stars.

In the late 1940s, there weren't any pop stars, and TV didn't exist.

Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants.

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.