Pops Quotes - Page 14

• There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and when influential clarinettists were household names. This was the swing era.

  Scott Yanow

  Teenager, Swings, Names

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• If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Play, Together

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• I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.

  Nelly Furtado

  Song, Rap, Writing

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• I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting What if? will pop into my head.

  James Rollins

  Reading, Interesting, What If

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• It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Airplane, Men, Discovery

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• I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.

  Mac Miller

  Mean, Artist, Thinking

  "Mac Miller's 2014 Plans: 'I Have Four Albums Done'" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. January 02, 2014.

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• The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Art, Thinking, Dying

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• It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Challenges, Mind, Digital

  Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

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• There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me

  John Rzeznik

  Hate, White, Males

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• The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

  Kimbra

  Fun, Mean, Play

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• The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Kids, Rocks, Rock Music

  "Juliana Hatfield Says Goodbye To The Stage, Hello To Art School". Interview with MiddleMojo.com, middlemojo.com.

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• I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.

  Timbaland

  Real, Trying, Different

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• I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

  Paloma Faith

  Profound, Style, Stuff

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• Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

  Kristin Hersh

  Guitar, Media, Play

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• Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

  Lady Gaga

  Applause, Chorus, Pop Music

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• Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

  Julian Casablancas

  Albums, Want, Shows

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• Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end.  If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied.  For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.

  Dan Graham

  Religious, Art, Rocks

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• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and
  deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with
  an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic
  cocktail!

  Don Was

  Running, America, Voice

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• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  Ville Valo

  Song, Night, Achievement

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• Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Booty, Done, Brushing

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• Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

  Andrew Dominik

  Song, Pop Song, Wanted

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• I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

  Brian McKnight

  Song, Hip Hop, Hips

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• You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Mind, Would Be, Diaries

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• When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them

  Rowan Pelling

  Phones, Elderly, Editors

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• As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

  Bernard Malamud

  Perseverance, Men, Long

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.110, Atlantic Books Ltd

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