Grace Jones Quotes

Pop music will never be low brow.

I love mainstream music.

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

I enjoy music that is commercial.

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

All that pop that you see on the radio? It's just the worst crud I've ever heard in my life. It's designed to make money, and that's about it.

I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.

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

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.

I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians, and they're still making art.

That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I love Top 40 pop, don't get me wrong; I just don't think that there's anyone in Top 40 pop that's 'real.'

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

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

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.

How can you not like Britney Spears?

Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U.S. R&B males.

I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face'... Oh! What a song! And 'Rolling in the Deep'... Oh!