Lauren Mayberry Quotes

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

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

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I think we give too much importance to artists talking about the art and the film and the books and the plays and the music - it's done; the material is there. But we talk about it because it's part of the game. I'm comfortable with it.

I miss the outspoken pop stars like Lily Allen.