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 love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.
I want to make big-sounding pop records.
There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me
Oh, the humanity. . . . It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.
It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.
A lot of stuff you hear on the radio is like instant hooky pop, but I can't imagine it being covered in the future by other artists. It's really for themselves.
As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.
I guarantee you I'm not going to forget your voice. We're going to run into each other down the road sometime, and when we do I'm going to pop you apart one rivet at a time. " "There's the monster. Hello, monster.
Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.
It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.
I'm a natural behind the camera. My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here. When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.
You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.
We think about strategies in pop songs to make people listen to them and be like, "What the hell was that?" But then they have to listen to it again.