Popular Quotes

I'm on the edge with you

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.

Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'

I was very popular in high school.

We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.

I'm pretty much out of popular culture altogether.

I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to this country. That's very popular in Republican politics .

I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.

Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

I would just say Hillary [Clinton] did win the popular vote.

[The Democrats] are sitting there thinking they really won. They won the popular vote. "We're only talking about this election Kellyanne [Conway]. You don't have a mandate, you don't have a mandate."

This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also felt was a responsibility.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

Hillary Clinton, [Democrats] say, leads the popular vote by two million, and a shift of a few votes in a few states would have won the election.

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.