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LAURA BACA We've definitely got some pop, but we're going to focus on playing little ball to get the runners on...
LORI RASCHILLA Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.
HEATHER HEADLEY Music. I do songs that have appeared on the pop charts, but they're music for grownups.
MICHAEL BALL These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT JR These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
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It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a p...
BRANFORD MARSALIS![]()
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JANE WIEDLIN 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 We just want to write classic pop songs about girls.
BEN CLARK![]()
By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not," Cobain says. "There are some pop...
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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD![]()
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ETHAN MENTZER We saw that there was a gap between music for tiny kids ? Barney and all that ? and pop music that w...
CLIFF CHENFELD Before record stores became Nazi-infested bunkers that were full of people who gave you dirty looks ...
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BARRY MANN We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
BARRY MANN There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s ...
CARLENE CARTER 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 It's going to be a one-time pop, and it's not going to be much of a pop, either.
KURT BARNARD We've always tried to have a good mix of stuff on our albums -- something that's fun, something that...
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If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Mus...
MIKE LOVE The only other consistent thing in Billy’s life was his father. Billy didn’t call him that thoug...
JESSE JAMES FREEMAN There were some good and disappointing things on 3-meter. I thought we had dives that were in positi...
JEFF SHAFFER I've written more songs than ever before on this record. (There are) maybe 25 songs (that) we've got...
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CLINT WALLMAN![]()
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I...
NICK HORNBY I don't really have a favorite pop artist - I just listen to some pop songs here and there. Most...
LILLA CRAWFORD A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop song...
NEIL TENNANT 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 don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupi...
JUICY J![]()
I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.
RUPAUL I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing trac...
AUTRE NE VEUT Every couple of hours, he'd pop back up. We knew he was there. We're not just going to walk off on t...
JEFF MESSER I say drink one or two big glasses of water. Then, if you're still wanting the pop, drink the pop. B...
DEBORAH WILCOX JAMIESON When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was...
TOM GLAZER The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '...
GARY NUMAN![]()
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case w...
STING![]()
I would say our sound is soul pop.
TARYN MANNING![]()
Say 'pop.'"
"Pop?"
"That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass.
ILONA ANDREWS![]()
Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily...
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Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
JOHN CUSACK![]()
Apple Music is trying to create an entire pop culture experience that includes audio and video. If S...
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TROYE SIVAN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.
BENNY BLANCO It's a mantle we don't deserve. That's not what we're about. We do big pop songs with bombast -- and...
DEF LEPPARD Perhaps I should go on record now and say that there are no songs on this album that refer in any wa...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY![]()
In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disp...
TRENT REZNOR We wanted to show people, absolutely and as a matter of fact, where we came from. We wanted to put t...
JOE ELLIOTT![]()
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let&...
EDDIE VAN HALEN![]()
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ...
BILL CLEGG The music map, the Vera Project all of these are steps in the right direction in making the state...
MEGAN JASPER Listen, I love old Madonna songs--I don't know one person who doesn't. But we want to focus mainly o...
JAMIE KING![]()
That then gives us two areas of musical thought: pop music and elitist music. Isn't there room for a...
BILL DIXON![]()
I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' a...
NICK RHODES![]()
I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, ...
IDINA MENZEL I think in some way, there aren't a lot of people making pop music with sincerity, ... We offer a sl...
DARREN HAYES I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
DAVID IVES I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even ...
THOM YORKE![]()
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like am...
WASHED OUT![]()
The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I...
JOHN LEGEND I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that mak...
KARA DIOGUARDI I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed o...
JAMES IHA When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
JOHN OTTO Everything sounds dated right now to me, like the songs you hear on the radio and the type of pop pu...
MICHAEL SHEPARD We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities.
BEN OAK I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
ANITA DIAMENT![]()
I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors...
GARY KEMP I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you'...
BENNY BLANCO![]()
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![]()
You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is...
OLLY MURS![]()
So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER![]()
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN![]()
What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching vio...
NICK HORNBY From now on I'll be a spectator sitting in the stands, having my pop and watching from there. It's b...
ROGER HATCH We play stuff from all of our albums because our fan base has been with us for so long. Kids are sin...
ZACKY VENGEANCE![]()
There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers argu...
STURGILL SIMPSON Our earlier stuff was a lot of short songs that were super complicated. Nothing ever repeated. It wa...
JOSH BLAIR 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 Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
JULIAN CASABLANCAS![]()
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot ...
CAROLINE SHAW From the get-go, my musical influences come from hip pop, popular stuff. And then I backtracked into...
DAVE MASON I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s po...
CAITLIN ROSE They were just unbelievable, how structured they were and her understanding of music, which is not s...
BEN MOODY Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's g...
ADAM LAMBERT It's time for us to just stop this stuff. We have got too much stuff to do in this world than to be ...
BECKY GILLETTE![]()
I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic p...
KELLY CLARKSON I had good intentions to do both (albums), and I started feeling like 'Wildflower' was that art albu...
SHERYL CROW![]()
He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir...
JOSH TURNER![]()
They're songs I honestly wish I'd written. I had a huge list of songs but wanted to keep the album a...
RICK SPRINGFIELD
LAURA BACA We've definitely got some pop, but we're going to focus on playing little ball to get the runners on...
LORI RASCHILLA Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.
HEATHER HEADLEY Music. I do songs that have appeared on the pop charts, but they're music for grownups.
MICHAEL BALL These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT JR These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT HAMMOND JR 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
Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net... MICHAEL CAINE I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kin...
BEN GIBBARD
It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a p... BRANFORD MARSALIS
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g... REBA MCENTIRE I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Her...
JANE WIEDLIN 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 We just want to write classic pop songs about girls.
BEN CLARK
By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not," Cobain says. "There are some pop... KURT COBAIN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
We once did an album with a pop painter, ... because we wanted to help him out. LOU REED We're really trying hard to bring back this thing with melody and good songs and a different way of ...
ETHAN MENTZER We saw that there was a gap between music for tiny kids ? Barney and all that ? and pop music that w...
CLIFF CHENFELD Before record stores became Nazi-infested bunkers that were full of people who gave you dirty looks ...
BEN CLARK We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade a...
BARRY MANN We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
BARRY MANN There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s ...
CARLENE CARTER 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 It's going to be a one-time pop, and it's not going to be much of a pop, either.
KURT BARNARD We've always tried to have a good mix of stuff on our albums -- something that's fun, something that...
GENE JOHNSON
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Mus... MIKE LOVE The only other consistent thing in Billy’s life was his father. Billy didn’t call him that thoug...
JESSE JAMES FREEMAN There were some good and disappointing things on 3-meter. I thought we had dives that were in positi...
JEFF SHAFFER I've written more songs than ever before on this record. (There are) maybe 25 songs (that) we've got...
GLENN HUGHES Had we played the last six holes a little better, we would have been right there at the top. There i...
CLINT WALLMAN
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I... NICK HORNBY I don't really have a favorite pop artist - I just listen to some pop songs here and there. Most...
LILLA CRAWFORD A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop song...
NEIL TENNANT 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 don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupi...
JUICY J
I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John. RUPAUL I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing trac...
AUTRE NE VEUT Every couple of hours, he'd pop back up. We knew he was there. We're not just going to walk off on t...
JEFF MESSER I say drink one or two big glasses of water. Then, if you're still wanting the pop, drink the pop. B...
DEBORAH WILCOX JAMIESON When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was...
TOM GLAZER The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '...
GARY NUMAN
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case w... STING
I would say our sound is soul pop. TARYN MANNING
Say 'pop.'""Pop?"
"That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass.
ILONA ANDREWS
Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily... PSY Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of ...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? JOHN CUSACK
Apple Music is trying to create an entire pop culture experience that includes audio and video. If S... JIMMY IOVINE I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with...
TROYE SIVAN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.
BENNY BLANCO It's a mantle we don't deserve. That's not what we're about. We do big pop songs with bombast -- and...
DEF LEPPARD Perhaps I should go on record now and say that there are no songs on this album that refer in any wa...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY
In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disp... TRENT REZNOR We wanted to show people, absolutely and as a matter of fact, where we came from. We wanted to put t...
JOE ELLIOTT
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let&... EDDIE VAN HALEN
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ... BILL CLEGG The music map, the Vera Project all of these are steps in the right direction in making the state...
MEGAN JASPER Listen, I love old Madonna songs--I don't know one person who doesn't. But we want to focus mainly o...
JAMIE KING
That then gives us two areas of musical thought: pop music and elitist music. Isn't there room for a... BILL DIXON
I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' a... NICK RHODES
I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, ... IDINA MENZEL I think in some way, there aren't a lot of people making pop music with sincerity, ... We offer a sl...
DARREN HAYES I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
DAVID IVES I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even ...
THOM YORKE
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like am... WASHED OUT
The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I... JOHN LEGEND I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that mak...
KARA DIOGUARDI I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed o...
JAMES IHA When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
JOHN OTTO Everything sounds dated right now to me, like the songs you hear on the radio and the type of pop pu...
MICHAEL SHEPARD We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities.
BEN OAK I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
ANITA DIAMENT
I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors... GARY KEMP I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you'...
BENNY BLANCO
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
You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is... OLLY MURS
So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER
Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song... CHRISTINE MCVIE Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN
What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching vio... NICK HORNBY From now on I'll be a spectator sitting in the stands, having my pop and watching from there. It's b...
ROGER HATCH We play stuff from all of our albums because our fan base has been with us for so long. Kids are sin...
ZACKY VENGEANCE
There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers argu... STURGILL SIMPSON Our earlier stuff was a lot of short songs that were super complicated. Nothing ever repeated. It wa...
JOSH BLAIR 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 Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot ... CAROLINE SHAW From the get-go, my musical influences come from hip pop, popular stuff. And then I backtracked into...
DAVE MASON I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s po...
CAITLIN ROSE They were just unbelievable, how structured they were and her understanding of music, which is not s...
BEN MOODY Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's g...
ADAM LAMBERT It's time for us to just stop this stuff. We have got too much stuff to do in this world than to be ...
BECKY GILLETTE
I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic p... KELLY CLARKSON I had good intentions to do both (albums), and I started feeling like 'Wildflower' was that art albu...
SHERYL CROW
He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir... JOSH TURNER
They're songs I honestly wish I'd written. I had a huge list of songs but wanted to keep the album a... RICK SPRINGFIELD
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I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, an... 
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to lif... 
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. 
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. 
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to disco... 
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills. 
I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile. 
The first hundred years are the hardest. 
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. 
We are set to make very bad history. 
These days an income is something you can't live without - or within. 
Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us! 
I don't think I could ever go skinny. I just don't think, physiologically, that is going to ... 
If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why. 
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's i... 
I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes... 
I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, a... 
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... 
My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on ... 
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. 