Popular Culture Quotes - Page 3

• I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

  James Ellroy

  Sports, Hate, Thinking

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• It is fashionable to scoff at Americans, but they routinely produce most of the important and ground-breaking entertainment in the world. 'Popular culture' is still culture, Shakespeare was once as popular as any of today's icons with the common people.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Icons, People, Important

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• When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.

  Saul Williams

  Heart, This Generation, Generations

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

  Cass Sunstein

  Ideas, Culture, Succeed

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• 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.

  William Gibson

  Chinese, Culture, China

  Source: craphound.com

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Culture, News

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of what could be considered popular culture were being expanded almost by the week. It doesn't feel like that anymore. At times, I wish it were so. Radio is a perfect example; good God, I mean, back then the most interesting songs were also hits, and that's just not true anymore. It hasn't been true in a long time.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Song, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

  Robert Bly

  Life, School, Men

  Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly; the majority of scientists deny it could possibly be there at all. It plays no part in popular culture: no one sings about it, no one talks about it in plays, and it's not on TV. We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Real, Believe, Buddhism

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• Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way their region is presented in popular culture. It is exciting to see how filmmakers take great care to present worlds in which race, region, and food are deeply intertwined.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Culture, World, Care

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern food - fatter, richer, more over the top - is what we typically see on TV, in Hollywood films, and in Southern-style or country-themed chains like Cracker Barrel. Southern food becomes a caricature, like characters and props in a reality TV show.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Character, Reality, Southern

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

  Ibn Warraq

  Culture, Opera, Should

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.13, Encounter Books

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• I feel a disparity between my life in India within the home and my life outside the home - my life within public and private space. In terms of here and there, there were some differences, but New York and India were very different when I was growing up in the '80s. Definitely in terms of the visual and popular culture I encountered within my home - that was very different from the complete lack of representation I saw of South Asian culture outside of that space.

  Chitra Ganesh

  Growing Up, Home, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we're having a glitzy over-the-top moment, fashion is very glitzy and over-the-top, you know, over-the-top. If we're having a moment where things are, you know, we're in a recession, fashion becomes quiet. So, in terms of popular culture, fashion and especially women's fashion is incredibly interesting, aside from satisfying just a particular need to create and arrange things in a way that one sees as beautiful. And so, in a certain way, it's fulfilling. In another way, it's very fleeting because it doesn't last very long. You know, a beautiful moment in fashion goes away very quickly.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Fashion, Long

  "Tom Ford: From Fashion To Film With 'A Single Man'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 14, 2009.

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• I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and write a character who practiced that spiritual tradition who was not evil and intent on creating zombies or causing pain through voodoo dolls or whatever.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Spiritual, Pain, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, War

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• I always want to be doing both to travel as a teacher and lecturer, and to be a musician. I think in this generation institutionalizing the art form and spreading it to the younger generation through education is really important for all artists to have some hand in. Right now in popular culture and the mainstream, it's not a big part at all. I think education by young artists talking to young people, not just older people talking to young people, it gives an experience never felt before. I think over the years it will do a lot for the music.

  Jonathan Batiste

  Teacher, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's definitely an integrated experience for me. Much more than any kind of cheap, emotional pulls that you get in popular culture, when I read a sentence and it's beautifully written, it can bring me to tears.

  Francoise Mouly

  Emotional, Intellectual, Tears

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I see myself as a very eclectic person and artist. I use all kinds of sources for the work as maybe some large pieces. Ideas come from all kinds of areas; literature, popular culture, dreams, you name it.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Dream, Artist, Culture

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Korea, Feminism, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the popular culture - better to smash the borders and look for interesting and important stuff from many different forms of storytelling.

  Toni Jerrman

  Interesting, Important, Different

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.

  Gilbert Seldes

  Art, Patriotic, Men

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• Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

  Daniel Clowes

  Nerd, Culture, Stuff

  "Clowes Encounter: An Interview With Daniel Clowes". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Feminism, Trends, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why I called the album "Our Version of Events" was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.

  Emeli Sande

  People, Ambitious, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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