Pops Quotes - Page 2

• Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Culture, Very Good, Knows

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• Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

  Billy Bragg

  Mixing, Usual, Use

  Song: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

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• Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.

  Robert Indiana

  Art, Spring, Eye

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• I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.

  Chrissie Hynde

  School, Mean, Knowing

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• Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

  Peter Saville

  Eye, Quality, Different

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• As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

  Grimes

  Challenges, Trying, Quality

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• In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous for being famous, famous for being infamous, famous for having once been famous and, thanks largely to the Internet, famous for not being famous at all.

  Tom Shales

  America, People, Bars

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• We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

  Oscar Peterson

  Night, Journey, Musician

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• We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: "Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack."

  James Keller

  Mom, Time, Prayer

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• Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing else matters-not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That’s all.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.24, Seal Press

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• If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

  Wanda Jackson

  Writing, Mind, Easy

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• And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

  Kurt Loder

  Country, Thinking, Drug Use

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• Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

  Greg Egan

  Flying, Kind, Drag

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• My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

  Kate Bush

  Games, Video, Done

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• I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

  Anita Diament

  World, Jazz, Kind

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• I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

  Doc Severinsen

  Play, Focus, Jazz

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• Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

  Peter Steele

  Song, Writing, Style

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• I'm on the edge with you

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Popular Song, Edges

  Song: The Edge of Glory, Album: Born This Way: The Remix

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• You don't know a thing about me

  Kelly Clarkson

  Song, Proxy, Knows

  Song: Mr. Know It All, Album: Stronger, 2011

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• I- I love you like a love song, baby
  And I keep hittin' repeat-peat-peat-peat

  Selena Gomez

  Baby, Song, Love You

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• I came to win, to conquer, to thrive

  Nicki Minaj

  Song, Winning, Conquer

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• It's okay not to be okay

  Jessie J

  Song, Popular Song, Okay

  Song: Who You Are, Album: Who You Are, 2011

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• 'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Heaven, House

  Song: Yoü And I, Album: Born This Way: The Remix, 2011

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• Ladies love me
  I'm on my cool J

  Chris Brown

  Song, Popular Song, Lady Love

  Song: Look At Me Now, Album: Boy In Detention, 2011

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• Takin' out my freak tonight

  Britney Spears

  Song, Tonight, Freak

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