David Archuleta Quotes

I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

Music has been taken over in this country by personalities and dominated by rock 'n' roll. There's been a synthesizer invasion and it's not going to go away.

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.

If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.

I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.

I just want to share trendy music with my fans.

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

There is no everlasting power in the music of today. Everyone is running after record sales.

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.