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Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.
BENNY BLANCO I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
DANNY BOYLE![]()
If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one a...
WILL.I.AM Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s ...
CARLENE CARTER![]()
Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
RACHEL STEVENS You're Emerson Ives! Are you really a virgin?
CHRISTINA MOORE At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop song...
NEIL TENNANT I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.
MOSE ALLISON I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kin...
BEN GIBBARD I compose and he doesn't compose. I cannot admire the composition of his music, only a few songs are...
YU ZHILIANG The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruse...
DUNCAN SHEIK The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
MALIK BENDJELLOUL Music. I do songs that have appeared on the pop charts, but they're music for grownups.
MICHAEL BALL We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
BARRY MANN The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
EVAN DANDO It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how...
MICK ROCK![]()
Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - Davi...
GEORGE VECSEY![]()
I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it...
DOUG AITKEN They (Penn-Trafford) did everything perfect until the final three minutes. They really didn't deserv...
DAN ANDRIA I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 mi...
BRIAN MCKNIGHT I've listened to their songs and I am looking forward to playing them. They are a good-sounding alte...
COURTNEY NELSON When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
JOHN OTTO![]()
You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is...
OLLY MURS I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing so...
ELLE KING I really admire David Guetta; he's an unbelievable DJ and I love his style, his music and everyt...
PAULY D I truly believe that three minutes is pretty reasonable.
GREG ADKINS We just want to write classic pop songs about girls.
BEN CLARK When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was...
TOM GLAZER I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos t...
TAYLOR HAWKINS The thing that I think is cool about pop music in general is just that it's not like rock music or c...
FORREST KLINE![]()
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Mus...
MIKE LOVE I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.
BRENDA HOLLOWAY![]()
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I...
NICK HORNBY![]()
I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be...
KATHERINE JENKINS My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I&#...
CHRISTINA PERRI![]()
By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not," Cobain says. "There are some pop...
KURT COBAIN I don't really have a favorite pop artist - I just listen to some pop songs here and there. Most...
LILLA CRAWFORD I concluded that three hours of David Swain [in videotaped depositions] was enough for anyone.
J. RENN OLENN Most of the games I started at the three, but I played like 30 minutes at the power forward spot.
ROBERT VADEN Robspierre replied softly, 'the question is to know where is the enemy.' 'He is out there, and I hav...
, "NINTY-THREE"![]()
Tonight, I am a Perfect Girl, because I had a perfect night. And it ended with three perfect kisses....
ADRIANA TRIGIANI![]()
I accidentally saw David Byrne's last two songs in Prospect Park at a free concert because I cam...
CHRISTOPHER MCCULLOCH That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the no...
DAVE KEUNING I'm not into all that pop music. It's convenient because I can store up to 500 songs and listen to w...
ERIC HAMILTON Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.
HEATHER HEADLEY![]()
I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.
ADELE I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way...
DAVID HASSELHOFF![]()
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like am...
WASHED OUT Larry has also promoted David Shoemaker, who was their chief legal officer, to chief operating offic...
STACEY ALLASTER The way I look at it, at practice I go really hard, and I have only three minutes between training s...
CODY WEIK![]()
I don't think I ever really go more than 30 minutes before I've got two or three things in my mind a...
SCOTT ADAMS "Sex,marriage & child upbringing are the three most difficult events in the world today."-david atta
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Twenty Years, ... It's big, blazing guitars, big drums, lots of melodies, all done in three minutes ...
JEFF DUNCAN There had been decisions from higher-ups in the past to put more of a pop sound to our music. For th...
BEN WILSON![]()
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in thr...
STURGILL SIMPSON I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
BILLY SHERWOOD My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four...
IMOGEN HEAP I had good intentions to do both (albums), and I started feeling like 'Wildflower' was that art albu...
SHERYL CROW![]()
The idea to write fresh, radio friendly pop songs would get an extra dimension if I could use two di...
MIKE RUTHERFORD I can get to the train in three minutes.
LAVONE HAZELL We're really trying hard to bring back this thing with melody and good songs and a different way of ...
ETHAN MENTZER![]()
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g...
REBA MCENTIRE![]()
You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs tha...
ACTION BRONSON People ask me if I'd like to be a teenager today, I'd have to say, "Not really." I'd never have gott...
JAMES DARREN The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '...
GARY NUMAN![]()
There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they ...
MARC MARON And I just know that this memory will be forever burned into my brain, because this kind of magic - ...
MICHELLE KRYS When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four ba...
RANDY BACHMAN I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.
JAMES DENTON The singing can last as long as 10, 15, 20 minutes to as long as 23 hours -- on average we are looki...
JOSHUA SMITH I heard something that sounded like a pop, and then I heard a couple seconds later, another pop, pop...
CHARLES KRONICK It's been about three minutes.
DOUG STETZER![]()
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case w...
STING I get hate e-mail on the average every three minutes.
DORON NOF![]()
Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directin...
JEAN-LUC GODARD![]()
I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
YAEL NAIM![]()
I think people buy our records because they finally see three guys that are funny and have personali...
TOM DELONGE I like songs that are simple.
SYD BARRETT We really want to be strong starters. The first three minutes of the game and the first three minute...
JOE BALOGH![]()
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ...
BILL CLEGG I wasn't sure that we could come back from three down with 10 minutes to go, but I thought we could ...
DAVID HARTWELL We saw her on Easter and two or three minutes here and there. We don't get to see Kendra much, so we...
DONNA KING I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical...
EMMY ROSSUM David played an outstanding game with three forced turnovers and more ground balls than I could coun...
CHARLEY JURIS![]()
Alot can happen in eleven minutes. Decker can run two miles in eleven minutes. I once wrote an Engli...
MEGAN MIRANDA Writing short, catchy pop songs was the hardest thing for me to do. The reason boils down to how thi...
BILL HENDERSON![]()
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let&...
EDDIE VAN HALEN![]()
I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
HARLAN HOWARD I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you'...
BENNY BLANCO We're opening, so it's just an hour — we'll choose the songs that suit the slot. Sometimes it's th...
OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ![]()
I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.
KEVIN HART At one point there were four sophomores and a junior in there at a crucial point and they played thr...
COACH AMEN At one point there were four sophomores and a junior in there at a crucial point and they played thr...
COACH SCOTT AMEN If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I ...
TOVE LO I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better productio...
ALEXA RAY JOEL The actors I admire are character actors.
CHASKE SPENCER I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely th...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to d...
ALAN JACKSON
BENNY BLANCO I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
DANNY BOYLE
If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one a... WILL.I.AM Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s ...
CARLENE CARTER
Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them. RACHEL STEVENS You're Emerson Ives! Are you really a virgin?
CHRISTINA MOORE At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop song...
NEIL TENNANT I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.
MOSE ALLISON I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kin...
BEN GIBBARD I compose and he doesn't compose. I cannot admire the composition of his music, only a few songs are...
YU ZHILIANG The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruse...
DUNCAN SHEIK The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
MALIK BENDJELLOUL Music. I do songs that have appeared on the pop charts, but they're music for grownups.
MICHAEL BALL We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
BARRY MANN The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
EVAN DANDO It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how...
MICK ROCK
Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - Davi... GEORGE VECSEY
I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it...
DOUG AITKEN They (Penn-Trafford) did everything perfect until the final three minutes. They really didn't deserv...
DAN ANDRIA I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 mi...
BRIAN MCKNIGHT I've listened to their songs and I am looking forward to playing them. They are a good-sounding alte...
COURTNEY NELSON When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
JOHN OTTO
You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is... OLLY MURS I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing so...
ELLE KING I really admire David Guetta; he's an unbelievable DJ and I love his style, his music and everyt...
PAULY D I truly believe that three minutes is pretty reasonable.
GREG ADKINS We just want to write classic pop songs about girls.
BEN CLARK When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was...
TOM GLAZER I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos t...
TAYLOR HAWKINS The thing that I think is cool about pop music in general is just that it's not like rock music or c...
FORREST KLINE
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Mus... MIKE LOVE I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.
BRENDA HOLLOWAY
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I... NICK HORNBY
I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be... KATHERINE JENKINS My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I&#...
CHRISTINA PERRI
By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not," Cobain says. "There are some pop... KURT COBAIN I don't really have a favorite pop artist - I just listen to some pop songs here and there. Most...
LILLA CRAWFORD I concluded that three hours of David Swain [in videotaped depositions] was enough for anyone.
J. RENN OLENN Most of the games I started at the three, but I played like 30 minutes at the power forward spot.
ROBERT VADEN Robspierre replied softly, 'the question is to know where is the enemy.' 'He is out there, and I hav...
, "NINTY-THREE"
Tonight, I am a Perfect Girl, because I had a perfect night. And it ended with three perfect kisses.... ADRIANA TRIGIANI
I accidentally saw David Byrne's last two songs in Prospect Park at a free concert because I cam... CHRISTOPHER MCCULLOCH That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the no...
DAVE KEUNING I'm not into all that pop music. It's convenient because I can store up to 500 songs and listen to w...
ERIC HAMILTON Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.
HEATHER HEADLEY
I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika. ADELE I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way...
DAVID HASSELHOFF
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like am... WASHED OUT Larry has also promoted David Shoemaker, who was their chief legal officer, to chief operating offic...
STACEY ALLASTER The way I look at it, at practice I go really hard, and I have only three minutes between training s...
CODY WEIK
I don't think I ever really go more than 30 minutes before I've got two or three things in my mind a... SCOTT ADAMS "Sex,marriage & child upbringing are the three most difficult events in the world today."-david atta
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Twenty Years, ... It's big, blazing guitars, big drums, lots of melodies, all done in three minutes ...
JEFF DUNCAN There had been decisions from higher-ups in the past to put more of a pop sound to our music. For th...
BEN WILSON
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in thr... STURGILL SIMPSON I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
BILLY SHERWOOD My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four...
IMOGEN HEAP I had good intentions to do both (albums), and I started feeling like 'Wildflower' was that art albu...
SHERYL CROW
The idea to write fresh, radio friendly pop songs would get an extra dimension if I could use two di... MIKE RUTHERFORD I can get to the train in three minutes.
LAVONE HAZELL We're really trying hard to bring back this thing with melody and good songs and a different way of ...
ETHAN MENTZER
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g... REBA MCENTIRE
You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs tha... ACTION BRONSON People ask me if I'd like to be a teenager today, I'd have to say, "Not really." I'd never have gott...
JAMES DARREN The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '...
GARY NUMAN
There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they ... MARC MARON And I just know that this memory will be forever burned into my brain, because this kind of magic - ...
MICHELLE KRYS When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four ba...
RANDY BACHMAN I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.
JAMES DENTON The singing can last as long as 10, 15, 20 minutes to as long as 23 hours -- on average we are looki...
JOSHUA SMITH I heard something that sounded like a pop, and then I heard a couple seconds later, another pop, pop...
CHARLES KRONICK It's been about three minutes.
DOUG STETZER
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case w... STING I get hate e-mail on the average every three minutes.
DORON NOF
Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directin... JEAN-LUC GODARD
I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to. YAEL NAIM
I think people buy our records because they finally see three guys that are funny and have personali... TOM DELONGE I like songs that are simple.
SYD BARRETT We really want to be strong starters. The first three minutes of the game and the first three minute...
JOE BALOGH
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ... BILL CLEGG I wasn't sure that we could come back from three down with 10 minutes to go, but I thought we could ...
DAVID HARTWELL We saw her on Easter and two or three minutes here and there. We don't get to see Kendra much, so we...
DONNA KING I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical...
EMMY ROSSUM David played an outstanding game with three forced turnovers and more ground balls than I could coun...
CHARLEY JURIS
Alot can happen in eleven minutes. Decker can run two miles in eleven minutes. I once wrote an Engli... MEGAN MIRANDA Writing short, catchy pop songs was the hardest thing for me to do. The reason boils down to how thi...
BILL HENDERSON
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let&... EDDIE VAN HALEN
I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes. HARLAN HOWARD I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you'...
BENNY BLANCO We're opening, so it's just an hour — we'll choose the songs that suit the slot. Sometimes it's th...
OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ
I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there. KEVIN HART At one point there were four sophomores and a junior in there at a crucial point and they played thr...
COACH AMEN At one point there were four sophomores and a junior in there at a crucial point and they played thr...
COACH SCOTT AMEN If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I ...
TOVE LO I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better productio...
ALEXA RAY JOEL The actors I admire are character actors.
CHASKE SPENCER I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely th...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to d...
ALAN JACKSON
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world.... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The... 
I always go for simplicity. 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go... 
That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you. 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. 
What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s... 
The law always limits every power it gives. 
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe... 
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination. 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
What I value most in my friends is loyalty. 
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ... 