Pop Quotes

• I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Seventies

• I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Mind
  • Star
  • Blow

• I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Like
  • Things

• I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Die
  • Mad
  • Dust

• With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Exist
  • Pop

• I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

  

  Lorde
  • Heart
  • Weird
  • Princess

• I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Back
  • Head
  • Pop

• I wanna be the biggest pop group on the planet.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Planet
  • Group
  • Pop

• My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Mom
  • Beloved
  • Rated

• I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Hip Hop

• I love Top 40 pop, don't get me wrong; I just don't think that there's anyone in Top 40 pop that's 'real.'

  

  Lorde
  • Real
  • I Love
  • Pop

• I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Artist

• Traveling all over the country and all over the world, I think you've got a lot of pop acts and a lot of rock acts that are making a point of traveling to different places and making people aware of their music and their shows and the whole deal and I think country music has always sort of stayed, for the most part, in the states.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Time
  • Business
  • Understand

• I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Live
  • Feel

• I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.

  

  Manika
  • Things
  • Expect
  • Pop

• I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Thing
  • To Be
  • Sexiest

• I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

  

  Adele
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• Little ideas can pop into one's head at any time, and if I'm being reasonably efficient I've got it close enough to hand, then I pop that little tiny moment of a few seconds down onto a tape and then I can forget about it for... years sometimes.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Ideas
  • Forget
  • Little

• Yeah exactly, so if anyone's bummed that The Mars Volta record's too simple or too pop, they can buy that album and it'll take them right back to that kind of sound. It's one of my favourite things I've ever worked on. It's pretty much a Mars Volta record, just without Thomas, Ikey, and Marcel. With Volta [Octahedron] was just our acoustic record that turned into our pop record.

  

  Cedric Bixler-Zavala At the Drive-In
  • Simple
  • Album
  • Pop

• That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

  

  Steven Curtis Chapman
  • Music
  • Country
  • Pop

• If you sample pop it’s not just about that one keystroke of a synthesizer – that I can do myself. You also want to sample things that are catchy such as vocal lines anyone can identify.

  

  Parov Stelar
  • Lines
  • Pop
  • Synthesizer

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