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I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

— Bill Laswell

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

— Fred Frith

I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I'm like a Casanova of music. I can't seem to settle down with one musical form.

— Todd Rundgren

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.

— Brian Eno

My tendency is to be very experimental.

— Sean Lennon

As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.

— Halsey

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

— Dave Lombardo

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

— Martin Gore

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.

— Mika

I am totally unapologetic about pop music.

— Mika

Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.

— Thurston Moore