Sharon Jones Quotes

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

Taylor Swift - I don't ever hear anything of hers where I'm like, 'Oh, so-and-so could've cut that.'

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

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

Nothing wrong with pop!

Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.

I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.

When I sing a pop song, I'm a pop singer. When I sing a country song, I'm a country singer. I've been very lucky to cross over, because by doing that, you can't be pigeonholed.

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

I was such a huge Ne-Yo fan.

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 have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

I really like Nicki Minaj. I think she's great.

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

I've always been a fan of Justin Timberlake.

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.

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.