#pop song

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#about #brilliant #build #draw #gift

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

#career #catch #catch phrase #come #composing

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can. ↗

— Tim Finn

#maybe #pop #pop song #song #why

'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#beautiful #best #ever #in my opinion #incredible

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#audience #catchy #concerts #depth #effects

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes. ↗

— David Ives

#i #minutes #perfect #pop #pop songs

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs. ↗

— Peter Steele

#i write #pop #pop songs #sometimes #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. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#cynical #forever #going #i #illusions

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. ↗

— Sting

#body #breathed #case #charts #commodity

At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#how #just #linking #musical #musical theater