Top 220 Pop Music Quotes

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we’ve lost the ability to be blown away by 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.

I think what makes his story unique from others is there is not really one piece of American pop music you hear today that does not have some James Brown in it.

We’re best at doing pop music – we’re not good at doing down, depressing music.

We grew up with every type of band from Primus to Mr. Bungle to Elton John to pop music to metal, and we try to throw it all in a blender. And whatever comes out of that is more Avenged Sevenfold than metal or metalcore.

What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, ‘Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.’

‘Better’ is one of the first real steps I’ve made into ‘pop music,’ and this collab feels like a match made in Heaven!

I think ‘pop’ can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don’t like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child’s mind.

My first introduction to pop music was probably the Osmonds, the Jackson 5, the BeeGees… Then the Beatles eventually. My father was pretty specific about what we listened to early on.

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

Pop music is actually a challenging genre. Not only do you have to be artistically expressive, but you also have to do that in a very strict format. I’ve always liked that challenge, but it’s very easy to slip into something non-creative. You just have to stay inspired all the time.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it went and where it went, at first I didn’t really want to do pop music. I was a little bit more into jazz and R&B.

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.

I love to sing country music and pop music.

It’s strange: I love pop music, and I really can enjoy it, but I didn’t feel like the characters within pop music – like when Madonna sings ‘Crazy For You’, for instance, I don’t feel like I would ever be the character she takes on in that song. I would never feel… I don’t have that confidence in me.

I’m not the hugest fan of pop music and electro music, which is why ‘The Inevitable Album’ was entirely live instruments.

I like pop music, especially Crosby, Nash, Stills and Young, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon – he’s broken up with Art Garfunkel hasn’t he? – but I can’t study while pop music is playing.

I had a few DJs in my neighbourhood that would play music in the streets. There was no hip-hop yet; there were just DJs that were playing disco, funk, and pop music, and we would gather round, go to the parks, and dance and enjoy ourselves.

I make pop music. I make music that is pretty commercial. But, at the same time, I’m a minority within a minority and it can be challenging. I feel validated about what I’m doing when I meet fellow black gay men or black gay women.

I don’t hate pop music. I liked the Beatles, but then, I knew them.

Nirvana, Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins, all those bands, at their core, are just really incredible pop music and I think a lot of that stuff has deeply affected the way I approach music.

Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

It took me a while to get an electric guitar and a bass and amps and stuff. Playing the acoustic guitar was much easier and more affordable. But I was always listening to the radio and was interested in all the rock and pop music.

I was raised on pop music.

The perception that if you’re not on ‘Top Of The Pops’ you’re dead and buried is a good one for pop music, because ‘TOTP’ is a catalyst or barometer for pop success.

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.’

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It’s my fascination, my ongoing passion.

I’m really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

Everybody’s all up on the EDM bandwagon now, because it’s, like, another viable conduit for traditional pop music to ride for a bit so they can get out of their little stagnant pool and make a dance hit.

I was always into pop music, Destiny’s Child, songs with catchy music. Even when I was writing when I was younger, it wasn’t all about expressing myself; it was just about making fun music.

Call it whatever you want, whether it’s hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it’s all pretty disposable. I don’t think that the music of Nikki Minaj or Justin Beiber is going to be played on the radio twenty-five years from now.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

Die Antwoord is super pop. It’s a pop music.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it’s a universal language. You don’t have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

I don’t know much about pop music, and we sample music from all different cultures. I was trained in West African dance, so my sense of rhythm when I move is obviously informed by that, and I obviously sing in Portuguese.

I love pop music, but I don’t want to be Celine Dion.

Pop music I have always loved best.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn’t, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

I love to listen to pop all the time! I like to be updated on the new hits; I think it’s important for what we do. Among my favorites of all time is, of course, Madonna. But I also love Kylie, our little princess; Beyonce, Bruno Mars, and Justin Bieber. And I listen to Italian pop music like Tiziano Ferro.

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

I don’t know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it’s made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.

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.

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music… I love big, American pop music.

Like Juan Gabriel and Ana Gabriel, both singers and songwriters of legendary talent, Marco Antonio has reshaped a kind of Mexican romanticism. What he brings to pop music is the kind of songs that really talk to people’s hearts.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

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.

I do love brash pop music. It’s fun.

Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung ‘Gaana’ folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got into acting.

I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to ’60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman’s Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

With musical theatre, although there are rules, they’re so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character’s voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.

I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It’s just so beautiful.