Ry Cooder Quotes

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.

There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.

I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.

I like all kinds of music artists like Akon. I even listen to Lady Gaga.

I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.

I don't keep up with music.

I have a borderline-embarrassing obsession with pop music.

I'm just real in-tune with music - I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.

I pursue what I think is the most trendy music at the moment.

I don't hate pop music. I liked the Beatles, but then, I knew them.

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

Anybody that doesn't like Cardi B a hater!

Pop music is what touches me the most.

Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.

Pop is everything from Kanye West to Taylor Swift, it's all pop to me.

The XCX really stands for 'kiss Charli kiss,' which is unbelievably crap.

I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has.

I never wanted to be a pop singer, but I always watched pop programs and knew I could do better than the people I was seeing.

People who like girl bands are really different from regular band fans.

I try to listen to as much as possible. I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many different musicians, and I need to learn.

I'm a huge Lionel Richie fan, and sometimes we actually listen to Lionel Richie on the bus.