Luciano Pavarotti Quotes

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

There are two genres of music: there's good music and there's bad music.

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

Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music!

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

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

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

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.

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

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

Nothing wrong with pop!

There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.

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

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 think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'

The album 'Party Music' is a beautiful album, and people need to hear it.

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

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