We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
Allan Bloom

We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
Gary Cherone

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
Barry Mann

We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.
Charles Kelley

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
Neil Tennant

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

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.
Chris Stein

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
Oscar Peterson

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.
Pete Townshend

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.
Tom Glazer

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.
Rita Coolidge

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.
Rebecca De Mornay

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
John Otto

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.
Joe Elliott

When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.
Steve Coogan

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

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
Lady Gaga

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

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
George Michael

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