Charli XCX Quotes

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

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

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

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

I sing and write a lot of pop, R&B.

I play music from Queen, to Elton John, to classic.

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

It's a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I'm a person that can make some hit singles. I'm not in no booth trying to be a lyrical genius. I'm preparing to make me some singles, and as I develop as a man, then they'll respect my emcee skills.

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

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.

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.

I love pop music. I listen to it; I think you can hear it in my songwriting and my album. I'd definitely say it's country-pop music, but it's country first.

When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible songs. During one session, we recorded 'Ten Little Indians,' an extremely silly song that featured a truly awful brass arrangement.

I like all kinds of music artists like Akon. I even listen to Lady Gaga.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.