Popular Quotes

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.

Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

It's okay not to be okay

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.

Musical shows are really popular because there are lots of talented kids out there that can sing and dance.

Donald Trump wasn't vying for the popular vote. He was vying for the Electoral College, as was Hillary Clinton. The only difference is he got over 300 electoral votes, and she did not.

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals.

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.

Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me'. Being popular is poison.

Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.

Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

There's a lot of kids' shows that are really popular ratings-wise, but they don't sell a lot of stuff. A character on a backpack just doesn't have the same appeal as watching it on TV.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

Sometimes broken hearts are needed, that way you will appreciate the one that handles it with care.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

I’m from Texas…the bigger the hair, the closer to God!

Normality is the new eccentric.

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.

Being popular doesn't mean you're better than anyone else.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.

I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.