Pop Quotes

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six months later, maybe a year.

I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque.

Pop music should be about young people.

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.

I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.

I'm forever a part of pop culture.

Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

Pop music is the one genre that isn't a genre. If the kids like it, then that's what defines it as pop music. Pop music is just something new.

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.

I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen.

I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

That was something that I learned from Alan Ball from “Six Feet Under." He didn”t really like to have too many pop culture references because they don”t really hold up after a few years.

That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.

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 music I have always loved best.