Popular Quotes
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Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.
I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power.
Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one of them.
People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.
You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
Japanese gamers aren't really into action games right now. They're into role-playing or strategy games with a lot of stats, but action titles are still really popular across the US and Europe.
Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.
There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.
I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.
I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.
I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.
I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.
When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.