Steve Cropper Quotes

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

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

How can you not like Britney Spears?

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!

As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

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

I love mainstream music.

I didn't set out to write pop hits.

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.

Pop music has progressed.

We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was 'Big Green Tractor,' which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was.

My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

I think the stuff that plays on the radio, the majority of it is for teenagers, which is okay. That's what pop radio is about. And some of it is great, and some of it is not.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.

I've basically got an album full of singles.

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.

You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

Ariana Grande - I like her a lot.

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

We're all big fans of pop music; this is definitely the direction we've always wanted to head in.

Like, I wanna be the producer with the Selena Gomez top-charting pop song, and like, a top-charting Migos or Gucci song in urban. I wanna just take over everything, you know?