Popular Quotes
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.
NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.
I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.
The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.
Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.
Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture.
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out there in Africa.
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.
You want to be recognized for being popular but you also want to be recognized for being great.
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year.
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
