Quotes About Music

I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.

Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.

Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

I think there's something antagonistic about bedroom pop. We're reappropriating pop and saying you don't have to be an ex-Disney star to make pop music. You can be from Shepherd's Bush and have spent most of your life listening to the Smiths and still make a pop record.

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.

I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.

In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs.

I do love brash pop music. It's fun.

I love pop music, I love country music.

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.

My voice is different, but I don't think I'm the only one with a different take on pop music.

My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.

Pop music for introverts is an idea I wanted to explore.

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.

I can't help what people write or think. If somebody thinks I'm a serious archivist, they're wrong. That's been a problem. It's a shame people take that attitude, because it affects how they listen to the music. It's a big mistake to treat any pop music that way.

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something different. Country music already had a George Strait and Alabama. We wanted to put some pop music in our show.

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.