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Quotes & Thinkers in Pop Music

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Freddie Mercury
🇬🇧Freddie Mercury
Music
1946–1991
"Listen, if you guys wanna move around and shift your asses a little, it's okay. It's okay by us, right? You can take all your clothes off if you like too, doesn't matter... Fuck off!"
18 quotes
Miley Cyrus
🇺🇸Miley Cyrus
Music
b. 1992
"I had one normal job and I actually liked it. I worked at this place called Sparkles Cleaning Service and I cleaned houses. I was like 11. I can clean toilet bowls!"
36 quotes
Taylor Swift
🇺🇸Taylor Swift
Music
b. 1989
"you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry"
17 quotes
Elton John
🇬🇧Elton John
Music
b. 1947
"There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome."
10 quotes
Lady Gaga
🇺🇸Lady Gaga
Music
b. 1986
"Fame for me is not external, it’s internal. So I’ve been famous for a long time."
42 quotes
Stephen Sondheim
🇺🇸Stephen Sondheim
Music
1930–2021
"Without question, Steve is the best Broadway lyricist, past or present."
2 quotes
Post Malone
🇺🇸Post Malone
Music
b. 1995
"From SoundCloud to Success with Post Malone: Noisey Raps, 2017"
2 quotes
Britney Spears
🇺🇸Britney Spears
Music
b. 1981
"I'm very, very blessed.  But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now.  As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up."
28 quotes
Jim Steinman
🇺🇸Jim Steinman
Music
1947–2021
"And we’ll never be as young as we are right now"
3 quotes
Lorde
🇭🇷Lorde
Music
"I'm a feminist and the theme of her song is, 'When you're ready come and get it from me.' I'm sick of women being portrayed this way."
1 quotes
J Dilla
🇺🇸J Dilla
Music
1974–2006
"If you were to secretly ask the most praised hip-hop producers, if given a top three, who they fear the most, Dilla’s name would chart on everyone’s list, hands down. ~ ?uestlove, drummer from The Roots"
9 quotes
Meghan Trainor
🇺🇸Meghan Trainor
Music
b. 1993
1 quotes
George Gershwin
🇺🇸George Gershwin
Music
1898–1937
"I like to think of music as an emotional science."
10 quotes
Johnny Mercer
🇺🇸Johnny Mercer
Music
1909–1976
"publicity agent … went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'"
1 quotes
Liam Payne
🇬🇧Liam Payne
Music
1993–2024
"Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with moustaches."
3 quotes
Vera Lynn
🇬🇧Vera Lynn
Music
1917–2020
"Neighbours sing Vera Lynn's 'We'll meet again' on VE Day 2020", The Telegraph"
8 quotes
Pink (singer)
🇺🇸Pink (singer)
Music
b. 1979
1 quotes
Tina Turner
🇺🇸Tina Turner
Music
1939–2023
"I have a simple, childlike view of life, and I want to keep it. That's why I never got into that Beverly Hills world. So many pretentious people. They just aren't real."
6 quotes
Gerard Way
🇺🇸Gerard Way
Music
b. 1977
"You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love."
7 quotes
Franco Battiato
🇮🇹Franco Battiato
Music
1945–2021
"We're come from stars' cosmic nature, | now we are destroying the future."
15 quotes
KT Tunstall
🇬🇧KT Tunstall
Music
b. 1975
"On the whole, I'm a positive, skippity-la-la person but I love the dark side of music and I will always want to explore that. It's a positive-sounding album but there's stuff underneath for sure."
18 quotes
Little Richard
🇺🇸Little Richard
Music
1932–2020
"I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard."
11 quotes
Shawn Mendes
🇨🇦Shawn Mendes
Music
b. 1998
"For me it’s hurtful. I get mad when people assume things about me because I imagine the people who don’t have the support system I have and how that must affect them."
2 quotes