Pops Quotes - Page 20

• I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Jesus, Reflection, Fans

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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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• An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can.' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.

  John Updike

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Running, Nice

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.75, Tuttle Publishing

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• Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them in there, and then moved to New Zealand. Before that I'd lived for a long time in south London where reggae was the music of the streets around me. You'd hear it booming out of people's windows and shops, and you could buy great old reggae singles for 50p (NZ1.30) in second hand shops. I'd always loved that sound, so soon after we got here I started making electronic dub records with my mate Rakai Karaitiana as International Observer.

  Tom Bailey

  Song, Writing, Hands

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• Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Dirty, Fans, Culture

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• I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.

  Black Francis

  Rocks, Looks, Want

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• 'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

  Bill Hicks

  Style, Bills, Comedy

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• A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

  Norah Jones

  People

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• The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

  Norah Jones

  Trying, Dresses, Labels

  "Norah Jones sweeps Grammy Awards", www.cnn.com. March 10, 2003.

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• I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

  Emmy Rossum

  Inspiration, Thinking, Rocks

  "15 Questions With Emmy Rossum". Interview with Miranda Lightstone, www.askmen.com.

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• In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

  Larry Niven

  Inspiration, Knows

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• On an iPhone, you touch on the digital keyboard and you know how the letter pops up and shows up bigger so you're making sure you're touching the correct letter? That's Nokia innovation.

  Stephen Elop

  Iphone, Touching, Innovation

  "Nokia Has $6 Billion In Patents And It's Ready To Start Selling Some Of Them" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. Julу 19, 2012.

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• When my legs go back you can hear them jangle, once ya pop you can't stop like a can of Pringles.

  Nicki Minaj

  Legs, Bragging, Pringles

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• Frozen peas can be shelled very fast with a wringer-type washer. Put a pan on one side of the wringer to catch the peas and the pods go on through. You will think peas will go through the wringer and be mashed the moment the pod hits the wringer, but they will pop out before they go through. A very fast job can be done this way.

  Heloise

  Jobs, Thinking, Sides

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• But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set. When people raised families in that sterile environment, it produced directionless children who became directionless teenagers, then directionless adults. With no roots, no past to stand on, you got hollow kids.

  Anne Frasier

  Children, Real, Teenager

  Anne Frasier (2012). “Hush”, p.21, Theresa Weir

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• The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Song, Mean, Technology

  Interview with Amy Kaufman, www.thewrap.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

  Ernest Cline

  Culture, Use, Shorthand

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

  Ernest Cline

  Python, Eagles, Iron

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory. I love what I've done and I just can't stand to see what they're doing to it. But I've learned to live with it because that's what they've done. They've come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It's not country anymore.

  George Jones

  Country, People, Sound

  Source: www.cbn.com

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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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• I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public. I don't feel it's my place to judge. I just look at things as a fan, I like or or I don't like it.

  Patti Smith

  Judging, Choices, Fans

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• You can only write so many pop songs before they all sound the same. I got to a point where something overtly melodic and straightforward sounded sort of cheesy to me. Pop songs seemed too manufactured.

  Dylan Baldi

  Song, Writing, Cheesy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Peter Steele

  Song, Writing, Style

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• Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.

  Mick Jagger

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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