Pop Music Icon Quotes

When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.

When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy. He had a monkey named Bubbles and some kind of oxygen chamber, and he used to be black, but he made himself white, and he was nuts. That was Michael Jackson in full. Wacko Jacko.

Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and it really goes without saying... a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us.

Michael Jackson has been my idol since before I could even walk.

I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.

I can never be Michael Jackson or do what he did, but he is definitely a good inspiration: I want to give the kids that feeling.

Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class.

Nobody can ever take Michael Jackson's place, it's only one Michael.

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.

Madonna wasn't an acrobat or anything, but the sex was good. I could tell she liked it.

There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing singer. There was just not anybody like her.

Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did.

I was at Michael Jackson's house, and this kid runs out, 'Wait, save me!'

(Britney Spears) went in for knee surgery and came out a little top heavy.

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

Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.

I grew up in Southern California and always loved melodic pop music.

If I can change bodies with anyone, it would be Britney Spears because how can you not like Britney Spears?

I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.

I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.

'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.

Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.'