Popular Song Quotes

• But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

  Mel Torme

  Song, Fairness, Shallow

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• In your eyes
  the light the heat
  in your eyes
  I am complete
  in your eyes
  I see the doorway to a thousand churches
  in your eyes
  the resolution of all the fruitless searches
  in your eyes
  I see the light and the heat
  in your eyes
  oh, I want to be that complete
  I want to touch the light,
  the heat I see in your eyes

  Peter Gabriel

  Song, Eye, Light

  Song: In Your Eyes

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• Send the haters all my love. X and O.

  Drake

  Love, Hater, I Hate You

  Song: Congratulations, 2009

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• I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

  John Lydon

  Music, Song, Writing

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Dream, Hope

  Song: Imagine

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• All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.

  Drake

  Life, Broken Heart, Rapper

  "Take Care". Song by Drake, 2011.

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• Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell

  Drake

  Broken Heart, Money, Rapper

  Song: Karaoke, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

  Common

  Appreciation, Player, Rapper

  Song: The 6th Sense, Album: Like Water For Chocolate, 2000

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• None but ourselves can free our minds.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

  Drake

  Drinking, Humble, Rapper

  Song: Every Girl

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• Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain

  Harry Styles

  Wall, Stories, Singers

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• I've asked about you and they told me things but my mind didn't change and I still feel the same.

  Drake

  Change, Rapper, I Still Love You

  "Song: "Take Care" ("Take Care")". February 21, 2012.

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• I get by with a little help from my friends.

  John Lennon

  Best Friend, Friendship, Song

  "Song: "With a Little Help from My Friends"". 1967.

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• Word on road is the clique about to blow. You ain't gotta run and tell nobody they already know

  Drake

  Running, Real, Humble

  Song: Good Ones Go, 2011

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• The road goes on forever and the party never ends.

  Robert Earl Keen

  Country, Song, Party

  Song: The Road Goes On Forever

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• Go on and try to tear me down
  I will be rising from the ground

  Demi Lovato

  Song, Trying, Tears

  Song: Skyscraper, Album: Unbroken, 2011

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

  Les Baxter

  Song, Imagination, Challenges

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• The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.

  Barry Humphries

  Song, Art, Past

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• Blue moon you saw me standing alone
  Without a dream in my heart
  Without a love of my own.

  Lorenz Hart

  Dream, Heart, Sadness

  "Song: 'Blue Moon'". 1952.

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

  Bill Paxton

  Twists, Film, Very Popular

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• I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Appreciation, Artist, People

  Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

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• We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

  David Bromstad

  Flirty, War, Optimistic

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• I've got the moves like Jagger.

  Adam Levine

  Moving, Maroon 5, Pops

  "Moves Like Jagger". Song by Adam Levine, Ammar Malik, Benjamin Levin, and Shellback, June 21, 2011.

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• The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Artist, Devil, Making Money

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• George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.

  Tony Snow

  Popular Vote, Years, Mold

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