Pop Music Quotes
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When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.
Johnny Marr
Pretenders
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I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.
Eric Hutchinson
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We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.
Keren Woodward
Bananarama
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I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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What you've got to do is look in your cupboard, see what's there, put it all in a big pot, sprinkle some grated cheese on top and bung it in the oven. That's what pop music is all about.
Alex James
Blur
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I think people assume that whatever kind of music you make is the music you listen to. Don't get me wrong, I listen to tons of pop music and all the music that really inspires Best Coast is very straightforward '50s and '60s pop music, but I've been listening to R&B and rap since I was a kid. I grew up in L.A. It's part of the culture. I listen to anything.
Bethany Cosentino
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I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.
Alice Nutter
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Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.
Colin Meloy
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Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.
Keren Woodward
Bananarama
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If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.
Colin Meloy
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Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.
Casey Spooner
