Pop Smoke Music Quotes

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids. ~ Juliana Hatfield

I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music. ~ Andrea Bocelli

I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with 'Royals.' I think that song changed everything in the pop scene. All of the sudden, alternative pop music became pop music. ~ Troye Sivan

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles. ~ Thighpaulsandra

Pop music is not a threatening style of music. ~ Joan Jett

So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent. ~ David Guetta

I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different. ~ Kris Allen

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird. ~ Theo Hutchcraft

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. ~ Thom Yorke

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. ~ John Lydon

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change. ~ Cliff Martinez

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like ... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band. ~ James Iha

Pop is about the self in isolation, is non-collective. Even in a crowd screaming at the Beatles, Bay City Rollers or Boyzone, the focus is the externalisation of individual obsession, hormonally induced or otherwise. Pop is not a team sport. Pop is not soccer. ~ Alistair Fitchett

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music. ~ Autre Ne Veut

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it. ~ Robbie Williams

Pop music will never be low brow. ~ Lady Gaga

Music matters," he told me once. "Pop fiction goes away, TV shows go away, and I defy you to tell me what you saw at the movies two years ago. But music lasts, even pop music. Especially pop music. Sneer at 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' if you want to, but people will still be listening to that silly piece of shit fifty ~ Stephen King

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it. ~ Alex Winston

I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen. ~ Jac Holzman

But music lasts, even pop music. Especially pop music. Sneer at 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' if you want to, but people will still be listening to that silly piece of shit fifty years from now. ~ Stephen King

I don't like pop music. ~ Michael Jackson

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. ~ Tom Stoppard

I wasn't into pop music, even at a really young age. ~ John Varvatos

I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music. ~ Jane Wiedlin

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music. ~ Danny Boyle

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music. ~ Peter Tork

I am totally unapologetic about pop music. ~ Mika.

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music. ~ Pete Wentz

Pop music has progressed. ~ Morrissey

I love pop music, but I don't want to be Celine Dion. ~ Vonda Shepard

I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that. ~ Chandler Riggs

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy. ~ Adele

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else. ~ Ellie Goulding

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing. ~ Aleksey Igudesman

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that. ~ Serj Tankian

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star. ~ David Bowie

It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast. ~ Gwen Stefani

I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues. ~ Iggy Pop

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that. ~ Chris Robinson

Hey!" I wave my index finger in his face, "No shitting on pop music. Everyone needs some light, fun, sexy pop music. It's summer, and that right there, is the perfect summer song. It's hot."
"You're right, it is hot," he says, scanning my body with his eyes. ~ Hilaria Alexander

That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old. ~ Kathleen Hanna

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music. ~ Jana Kramer

I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change. ~ Lady Gaga

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word. ~ Patrick Stump

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States. ~ Kate Bush

I'm the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do music that anyone can like and enjoy. ~ Seungri

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form. ~ Robbie Williams

I like to play music that people can feel deeply but it's also interesting to listen to - a nice balance between cathartic and pop music. ~ Max Bemis

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. ~ Paul Epworth

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music. ~ Juice Newton

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. ~ Kristin Hersh

As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. ~ Halsey

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music. ~ Nicki Minaj

I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music. ~ Ricki-Lee Coulter

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion. ~ Siobhan Fahey

I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres, whereas I was only exposed to the poppiest of pop music so I never had this negative connotation towards pop music. That's not South African music having an effect on me, but just how international music was filtered through South Africa affected me. It gave me a not-negative connotation towards pop music growing up. ~ St. Lucia

I love my pop music. ~ Rita Ora

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery. ~ Lorde

Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain. ~ Marta Sanchez

Music is life, and life is not a business. ~ Iggy Pop

Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever. ~ Freddie Hubbard

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality. ~ Grimes

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does. ~ Casey Spooner

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies. ~ Ice Cube

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. ~ Gary Numan

I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing. ~ Tiesto

To all those who won't listen to my music because I don't smoke ganga, I say the hell with those people ~ Eddy Grant

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping. ~ Kara DioGuardi

The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and ... so having that darkness there opens another door. ~ Andrew Dost

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same. ~ Madonna Ciccone

In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke. ~ Iggy Pop

Toke a lid, smoke a lid, pop the mescalino! ...Hop a hill! Pop a pill! For old Tim Benzedrino! ~ The Harvard Lampoon

I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast. ~ Girl Talk

I would consider my music like, pop-R&B. So it can reach a lot of people. Pop is popular music. That's what it stands for. So I'm just making music that I know that I like, I know other people will like, and my fans will like. ~ Justin Bieber

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. ~ Brian Eno

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop. ~ Iggy Pop

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? ~ John Cusack

Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is. ~ Michael Tilson Thomas

I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch. ~ Claire Denis

For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere. ~ Jon Secada

The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray. ~ Bono

What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it. ~ Julianne Hough

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it. ~ James Bay

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane. ~ Benny Blanco

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence. ~ Jon Landau

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' ~ Pete Townshend

Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer. ~ Steven Morrissey

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres. ~ Jessie J.

Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music. ~ Daniel Lopatin

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band. ~ Nick Jonas

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. ~ Iggy Pop

I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world! ~ Katherine Jenkins

When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to it just because all my friends were getting into pop music and everything, and I remember I just wasn't interested at all. I liked drawing and science. ~ Jens Lekman

I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot. ~ Eminem

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach. ~ Iggy Pop

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime. ~ Mike Love

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. ~ Anita Diament

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that. ~ Hilary Duff

What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"- Rob ~ Nick Hornby

If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it. ~ Paul Anka