Pops Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

  Gillian Flynn

  Style, Different, Culture

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• It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.

  Rob Zombie

  Running, Song, Rap

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• What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward - neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Thinking, Civilization

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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 don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.

  Jason Mraz

  Journey, Weakness, World

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• Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
  with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wind, Oil, Sound

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.338, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.

  Helen Forrest

  Names, Jazz, Forget

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• What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.

  David Einhorn

  Might, Uncertain, Bubbles

  "Einhorn: Tech bubble brewing, shorting momentums". David Einhorn's investor letter, www.cnbc.com. April 22, 2014.

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• There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Stars, Media, Affair

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• We, as pop stars, are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit of my art to put them over. I think music is one of the most powerful media forces in the world today.

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Art, Stars, Powerful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field

  Gerry Mulligan

  Fields, Incredibles, Mulligans

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• I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense. Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational. Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come. I consider Laura to be one of my best signings, and I am proud to have had such a great singer in my career in the record business. We miss her dearly.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Brother, Careers, Voice

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• You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.

  Karrie Webb

  Winning, Years, Wells

  "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". www.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.

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• I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently.

  Rick Astley

  Boys, People, Before And After

  "Rick Astley: The pop idol returns". The Independent, October 13, 2005.

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• If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

  Jon Secada

  Song, Honesty, Writing

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• There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Independent, Technology, Consistency

  "Trumbull's Vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.

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• No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

  Peter Tork

  Stars, Firefighter, Want

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• With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees me moving away from a generic line up and back into the world of a programmer. Born of reconstructed improvisation I like to think of it as Prog-Pop, but I also like to think of big dogs as small horses. So don’t hang on to that thought long. Unless, of course, you think it astute of me in which case I am right

  Alison Moyet

  Dog, Song, Horse

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• If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

  Bobby Short

  Play, People, Trying

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• I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own.

  Mika

  Records, Obsessed, Soundtracks

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• I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

  Jane Haddam

  Hate, Book, Lasts

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• It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.

  Craig Finn

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.

  John Squire

  Rose, Desire, Groups

  "No Second Coming Says Stone Roses Man". thequietus.com. March 19, 2009.

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