Charli XCX Quotes

I want my music to be beautiful.

I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

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

At Wembley, everything is bigger, wider; the atmosphere is different.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

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.

There's nothing better than lifting somebody's spirit with music.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

I like when pop is still good music; that's what I like.

I always wanted them to look like Hollywood movies; I just didn't know how to do it.

When young people hear auto-tune, they think that's real R&B. You have to get rid of all of the gimmicks.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

When you do a pop album, the canvas is completely yours. There is no story situation forced on to your songs - you have the freedom to develop it right from the concept.

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

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

Honestly, the way I make music, you know - it's like, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn't have an expiration date.

It was important for the first piece of original music that I release to have a timeless feel because that's the type of music I want to make.

'Muntazir' has a very feel-good vibe to it. It's Strings' signature composition, especially the pre-chorus. I thoroughly enjoyed lending my vocals to it.