That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'
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.
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.
The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.
Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs.
With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.
I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.
Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.
I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music.
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.
For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
I want to produce more number one hits but not follow trends blindly! What I really hope to achieve in the long-term is to get that cross-over status such as Calvin Harris and Avicii. I'd love to be a household name in pop music.
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.
I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
Pop music should be about young people.
The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.