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Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.
SIOUXSIE SIOUX Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's g...
ADAM LAMBERT I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with...
TROYE SIVAN![]()
For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I'v...
JON SECADA I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Her...
JANE WIEDLIN![]()
I do love brash pop music. It's fun.
ROMY MADLEY CROFT Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
DANNY BOYLE![]()
What's missing from pop music is danger.
PRINCE![]()
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a perio...
JOHN MAYER![]()
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI![]()
People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experiment...
NICKI MINAJ![]()
I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.
RUPAUL That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlik...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN![]()
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There'...
ADELE![]()
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ...
BILL CLEGG There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music bef...
NOBUO UEMATSU I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed o...
JAMES IHA![]()
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like am...
WASHED OUT![]()
I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love p...
PETE WENTZ Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal langu...
PAUL EPWORTH![]()
To be honest, for me, my main workout is when I'm on stage. Even though I make pop music, I don&...
CHARLI XCX So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm start...
DAVID GUETTA![]()
I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like t...
BRYAN WHITE![]()
There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in...
POST MALONE Difficult music is just a huge challenge. I've always been interested in music that didn't have pop ...
JOSH BLAIR Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racial...
DAN HILL![]()
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes ou...
BONO There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
BEN FOLDS I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES![]()
The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music a...
BABYFACE Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability t...
BRIAN WILSON There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop m...
AUTRE NE VEUT 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![]()
I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classica...
JACKIE EVANCHO Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for th...
ADAM SCHLESINGER![]()
I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a s...
GEORGE MICHAEL![]()
Pop music will never be low brow.
LADY GAGA![]()
I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.
JIMMY PAGE I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are workin...
AUTRE NE VEUT I think I was raised on all types of music. Of course there was the American pop music. There was al...
JOSE MATEO![]()
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music...
SAM SMITH![]()
I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.
CHANDLER RIGGS There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formul...
EDGAR WINTER![]()
For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associate...
SOLANGE KNOWLES![]()
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own...
ARLO GUTHRIE![]()
I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors...
GARY KEMP I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ...
LAURA ROBSON I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' ro...
ADAM LAMBERT![]()
My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there we...
LYLE LOVETT![]()
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Mus...
MIKE LOVE![]()
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
JOHN CUSACK Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can'...
KRISTIN HERSH![]()
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 I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop,...
NAYVADIUS CASH The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in y...
JACK ANTONOFF I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad...
ELLE KING![]()
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle...
SEAN COMBS I've always believed that the best way you combat intellectual property theft is making a produc...
BOB IGER I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try...
AUBREY O'DAY There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic...
DAVID GUETTA We saw that there was a gap between music for tiny kids ? Barney and all that ? and pop music that w...
CLIFF CHENFELD I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anythin...
JANELLE MONAE You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t...
ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. B...
PAUL ANKA![]()
I've always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lin...
JAY-Z I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that...
GRANT GUSTIN I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the sourc...
JACK BRUCE I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in ...
ED WESTWICK![]()
Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unp...
TAVI GEVINSON I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
DANNY BOYLE![]()
I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back...
ROB GRONKOWSKI I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it...
DUSTIN LYNCH I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you'...
BENNY BLANCO![]()
Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rai...
THE WEEKND I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
SIOBHAN FAHEY I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's i...
RACHEL MINER I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or po...
JAZMINE SULLIVAN![]()
My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's...
BECKY G I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
ANITA DIAMENT It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and p...
GRIMES I've always had an interest in the fashion side of pop culture.
CHARLES KOPPELMAN![]()
I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
CARA DELEVINGNE![]()
Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like i...
EDDIE VAN HALEN![]()
I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.
DAVID ARCHULETA![]()
It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a ya...
DAVID LEE ROTH In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into ever...
VALERIE SIMPSON Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
RAVI SHANKAR I feel like I'm doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to ...
NAYVADIUS CASH In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a...
SIMON COWELL![]()
I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too da...
HALSEY Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it...
PETER TORK It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can...
AL JARREAU I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
ST. VINCENT![]()
Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - ...
SUMMER GLAU![]()
I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.
JESSIE J Music. I do songs that have appeared on the pop charts, but they're music for grownups.
MICHAEL BALL![]()
In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disp...
TRENT REZNOR I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fam...
OTIS BLACKWELL There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen...
FREDDIE HIGHMORE
SIOUXSIE SIOUX Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's g...
ADAM LAMBERT I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with...
TROYE SIVAN
For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I'v... JON SECADA I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Her...
JANE WIEDLIN
I do love brash pop music. It's fun. ROMY MADLEY CROFT Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
DANNY BOYLE
What's missing from pop music is danger. PRINCE
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a perio... JOHN MAYER
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that ... JAMES SUROWIECKI
People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experiment... NICKI MINAJ
I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John. RUPAUL That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlik...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There'... ADELE
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ... BILL CLEGG There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music bef...
NOBUO UEMATSU I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed o...
JAMES IHA
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like am... WASHED OUT
I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love p... PETE WENTZ Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal langu...
PAUL EPWORTH
To be honest, for me, my main workout is when I'm on stage. Even though I make pop music, I don&... CHARLI XCX So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm start...
DAVID GUETTA
I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like t... BRYAN WHITE
There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in... POST MALONE Difficult music is just a huge challenge. I've always been interested in music that didn't have pop ...
JOSH BLAIR Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racial...
DAN HILL
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes ou... BONO There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
BEN FOLDS I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES
The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music a... BABYFACE Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability t...
BRIAN WILSON There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop m...
AUTRE NE VEUT 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
I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classica... JACKIE EVANCHO Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for th...
ADAM SCHLESINGER
I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a s... GEORGE MICHAEL
Pop music will never be low brow. LADY GAGA
I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. JIMMY PAGE I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are workin...
AUTRE NE VEUT I think I was raised on all types of music. Of course there was the American pop music. There was al...
JOSE MATEO
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music... SAM SMITH
I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that. CHANDLER RIGGS There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formul...
EDGAR WINTER
For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associate... SOLANGE KNOWLES
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own... ARLO GUTHRIE
I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors... GARY KEMP I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ...
LAURA ROBSON I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' ro...
ADAM LAMBERT
My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there we... LYLE LOVETT
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Mus... MIKE LOVE
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? JOHN CUSACK Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can'...
KRISTIN HERSH
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 I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop,...
NAYVADIUS CASH The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in y...
JACK ANTONOFF I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad...
ELLE KING
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle... SEAN COMBS I've always believed that the best way you combat intellectual property theft is making a produc...
BOB IGER I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try...
AUBREY O'DAY There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic...
DAVID GUETTA We saw that there was a gap between music for tiny kids ? Barney and all that ? and pop music that w...
CLIFF CHENFELD I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anythin...
JANELLE MONAE You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t...
ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. B...
PAUL ANKA
I've always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lin... JAY-Z I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that...
GRANT GUSTIN I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the sourc...
JACK BRUCE I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in ...
ED WESTWICK
Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unp... TAVI GEVINSON I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
DANNY BOYLE
I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back... ROB GRONKOWSKI I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it...
DUSTIN LYNCH I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you'...
BENNY BLANCO
Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rai... THE WEEKND I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
SIOBHAN FAHEY I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's i...
RACHEL MINER I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or po...
JAZMINE SULLIVAN
My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's... BECKY G I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
ANITA DIAMENT It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and p...
GRIMES I've always had an interest in the fashion side of pop culture.
CHARLES KOPPELMAN
I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way. CARA DELEVINGNE
Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like i... EDDIE VAN HALEN
I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music. DAVID ARCHULETA
It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a ya... DAVID LEE ROTH In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into ever...
VALERIE SIMPSON Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
RAVI SHANKAR I feel like I'm doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to ...
NAYVADIUS CASH In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a...
SIMON COWELL
I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too da... HALSEY Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it...
PETER TORK It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can...
AL JARREAU I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
ST. VINCENT
Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - ... SUMMER GLAU
I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres. JESSIE J Music. I do songs that have appeared on the pop charts, but they're music for grownups.
MICHAEL BALL
In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disp... TRENT REZNOR I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fam...
OTIS BLACKWELL There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen...
FREDDIE HIGHMORE
My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attr... 
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