Pop Quotes

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

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.

There's many different genres, and when you see R&:B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.