Pop Song Quotes
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'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.
I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.
I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.
To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.
Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.
We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10
Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.
I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?
When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love you." And then you try to figure out some rhyme for that, and there never is one.
Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.
I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.
If you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?
When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.
I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.
I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.
If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.
It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.
I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's usually what I'm inspired by, what I'm thinking about.
I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.
Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.
I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.
If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.
'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.
Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.