Pop Quotes

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.

People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.

In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!

Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

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

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.

Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.

Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain.

I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

Awards are great, but they're not who you are, and pop culture isn't who you are.