The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.
The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.
I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
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.
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.