David Foster Quotes

I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

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

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

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've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.

I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

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've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

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.

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

I always wanted to do my solo album in English, because I grew up listening to a lot of pop artists and English-based songs.

Soundtracks are made all the time that die horrible deaths - even soundtracks for popular movies.

Pop music is what touches me the most.

I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.

As a child, I wanted to be a singer, but that was only because I thought I could sing. I'd sing along to Brandy and Usher and *NSYNC.

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.

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

Music has been taken over in this country by personalities and dominated by rock 'n' roll. There's been a synthesizer invasion and it's not going to go away.

The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience.

Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent.

Who are critics? Do they know about music? Have they proved themselves in the field? I remember, when we came up with the music of 'Dil Chahta Hai,' some of the critics said that the songs sounded like jingles.

I have a borderline-embarrassing obsession with pop music.

I remember when I got into movies, the only way singers could be heard was to through playback singing in movies. Then gradually came the music companies promoting independent pop singers.

Rebecca Black 'Friday' song is the best song ever! Don't you agree!