Top 40 Pop Stars Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Pop Stars Quotes from famous people such as Dustin Diamond, Selena Gomez, Slowthai, Jon Batiste, Robert Stigwood, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the probl

You’ve got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they’re trying to be pop stars. You can’t compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music.
Dustin Diamond
Sometimes fans for male pop stars or actors can be a little crazy. I was that way with Jesse McCartney and N’Sync.
Selena Gomez
I don’t get all these pop stars who sit on the fence when they’re asked for an opinion. People are scared of speaking out. They’re too worried about the consequences – like they might lose a few fans if they give a serious opinion.
Slowthai
Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music ‘root music.’
Jon Batiste
To be a good personal manager, you have to be on the case, holding pop stars’ hands.
Robert Stigwood
I’m personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today’s pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I’m looking for talent that’s like that, that’s what I love.
L.A. Reid
There’s a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I’m not trying to please the masses. It’s not going to happen, so I don’t try.
Kelis
I’m just very body-conscious. Sometimes I’m really proud that I don’t look like other pop stars. But there’s also moments where I’m like, ‘Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.’
Sam Smith
‘The X Factor’ seems to be more about building up personalities and people in tears. And it’s not a new idea. The pre-Beatles pop world was full of manufactured pop stars. The thing is that you can’t imagine any of the artists you look back at and admire ever going on ‘The X Factor.’
Jools Holland
I’ve never really been that into cars. Maybe I just thought that’s what pop stars do. They buy flash cars. I was just playing it up a bit, being flash.
Chesney Hawkes
That’s what has always been so surprising for The Seekers – when you think they try to create pop stars in a contrived, manufactured way and we were just four people who just happened to meet and sing together.
Judith Durham
Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke – George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.
Jake Shimabukuro
I admire pop stars, and there’s parts of that world I’m glad I don’t have to go through. It takes a lot of work to do the things they do.
Grace Potter
My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars – not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road – and we were roped in.
Rufus Wainwright
I used to sit in my bedroom and think that all of my favourite pop stars go on stage, they sing, and then they do other normal stuff. I didn’t know what goes on or what you let yourself in for.
Cher Lloyd
In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at ‘The Mail’ on Sunday in the U.K. and became a ‘ghost writer,’ collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.
Michael Robotham
The thing about gay male pop stars is: they aren’t supported by gay men. Gay men don’t really support them until they’ve gone beyond the gay community and had success in the mainstream, so it’s really challenging.
Courtney Act
I’m definitely bigger than a Rihanna. Pop stars nowadays are all perfect Barbie-doll bodies, and they talk about how they keep their bodies up with hard work, so in my eyes, it’s good to have a regular, average body type in the charts.
Meghan Trainor
All of us ’60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school.
Donovan
I think it’s a bit shocking for people when pop stars say anything out of the safe zone.
Jade Thirlwall
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I’m going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
Robbie Williams
There are many pop stars who are great performers – but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.
Tom Morello
I am a very poppy little girl. I wasn’t allowed to be poppy at first because y’know in my mind, pop stars are thin and beautiful and light, and I’ve never felt beautiful, skinny and light.
Netta Barzilai
The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I’d bump into people who mattered, such as Ry Cooder or Randy Newman. I was disappointed to see the people I’d always thought of as pop stars. They would charge around the stage rather than enjoy the music.
Chris Rea
Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don’t really have a lot of time for activism.
Annie Lennox
I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We’re just submerged.
Kristin Scott Thomas
If you look at pop stars through the ages, we’ve had camp, glam popstars from the 80s – your George Michaels and what have you – but then people went back to the closet a bit, and became more homogenised and generic.
Olly Alexander
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.
Skepta
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.
Keren Woodward
I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them – there’s tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
Macklemore
It’s really important for women in the public eye to be open – these pop stars who don’t look, behave, speak like real women – that’s not fair on women. Being real, honest, authentic – too many women in the public eye are afraid to be authentic because they are afraid they will be judged.
Dawn O’Porter
I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you

I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.
Lily Allen
I’d like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it’s someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I’ll work with them, or, like, maybe I’ll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.
Flume
I don’t think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.
Lorde
I’m used to presenting programs about pop music, interviewing pop stars, and hosting awards.
Miquita Oliver
I don’t want to be famous or recognizable. I don’t want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet… I’ve been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that’s just not something I want.
Sia
All I want for 2019 is for much-loved pop stars to stop being inadvertent propagandists for mass-murdering dictatorships.
Owen Jones
I’ll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don’t have to be famous.
Sia
I basically believe that all pop stars create personas and manipulate them. What we relate to are not their real selves; they are projections, which tend to shift in shape.
Robert Christgau
When you have a teacher who is part of a tradition, the other people in that tradition are such stars. You just look at them like pop stars.
Hilary Hahn