Pop Quotes

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Pop music I have always loved best.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.