Popular Quotes

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

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.

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

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.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.

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.

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.