Jeffrey Osborne Quotes

The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.

If I can sing along to it, it's pop music.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

The thing with One Direction songs is that you can probably break them all down to an acoustic guitar and vocal.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

I'm not a snob... there's room for entertainment that reaches a lot of people and can be really good, but you don't just have to be one kind of actor.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.