Max Martin Quotes

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

It is extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Nobody has communicated with the public more than Lady Gaga. Ever. I trust the audience, and I'm very impressed. As far as they're concerned, she's part of their family. The only guy who ever did that was Bing Crosby, years ago.

If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?

Many pop songs seem to be more potent now than in their heyday.

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to think, and that's just the way it is.

His belief in the power of music to convey ideas - not just entertain - has filtered down to musicians in every field, from alt-rock to hip-hop, from Bruce Springsteen and U2 to Arcade Fire and Kanye West. Popular music is different because of Johnny Cash.

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.

I feel like hip-hop is the new pop because it has a lot of influence because of our culture.

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.

One of my favorite songs I've ever done is "Who Says," and I was 17 when I recorded that song. It was just so exactly what I felt, during that time. That's when I knew how powerful music is.