Mitski Quotes

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.

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

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

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

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

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

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!

We're huge fans of Kylie Minogue, Grimes, and artists who are doing more electronic music.

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

I've never commercialized my music. I've seen that ruin too many people who think two-minute ditties are the answer.

'Push It,' to me, was very pop. And back then, you were called 'sell-out' to be pop.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

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

In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young.

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.