Pops Quotes - Page 24

• In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

  Michael Kosser

  Writing, Rocks, Nashville

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• As far as the hate, it makes me laugh. Everybody is a critic. Every critic I've ever had, they weren't wrestlers. Every wrestler I've ever had critique me, they were always into my stuff or what I'm doing out there. For a non-wrestler, someone who doesn't even know how to lock up, and if we did lock up, they wouldn't know what to do, for them to critique any of us, it really does pop me.

  Roman Reigns

  Hate, Laughing, Doe

  "Roman Reigns Talks 'Royal Rumble,' Injury Return & Haters". Interview with Joshua Caudill, www.craveonline.com. January 22, 2015.

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• She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Girl, Sweet, Gay

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• The incomparable Michael Jackson has made a bigger impact on music than any other artist in the history of music. He was magic. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the King of Pop! Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away. For anyone who has ever seen, felt or heard his art, we are all honored to have been alive in this generation to experience the magic of Michael Jackson. I love you, Michael.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Art, Kings, Love You

  "Usher, Beyonce, More Pay Tribute To Michael Jackson" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 25, 2009.

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• I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!

  Tom Jones

  Rocks, Kicking, Singers

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• Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Rocks, Soul

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• I got a safe full of cherries 'cause I pop it and lock it.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Locks

  Song: I’m Bo Yo, Album: Bo Burnham, 2009

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• I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional.

  Thom Yorke

  Stars, Talking, Two

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• Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

  Gerry Beckley

  Proof, Abba, Decades

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• Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Struggle, Self, Expression

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• I'm aware of how pop culture really infiltrates your expectations in a way that even if you think you're savvy about pop culture, it's so hard not to have these expectations of what a relationship should be. So I constantly feel like I have to bat those expectations down.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Expectations, Bats

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most blue-based colors help make the smile appear whiter and have the added benefit of making you look younger... Shimmering nude gloss also works well if bright pops of color are not your thing.

  Tim Quinn

  Blue, Color, Looks

  "Beauty Chat: Tim Quinn of Giorgio Armani". Interview with Amber Katz, www.elle.com. January 15, 2013.

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• That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

  Giorgio Armani

  Icons, Portraits, Culture

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2008.

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• I'm not looking to be the greatest pop star of all time. I want to be an artist. I want to influence people and I want to get people to think about the world, to think and talk to each other and connect. To challenge one another.

  Jillian Hervey

  Stars, Artist, Thinking

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• Madonna is the ultimate pop star of all time, hands down.

  Jeremy Scott

  Stars, Hands, All Time

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.

  Rihanna

  Art, Stars, Fun

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Doing something that you love regardless when it's a blockbuster movie or you're writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out. I think that's actually fine, and I would encourage that all the time.

  Adam Levine

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Much to my chagrin, I think that cinema has gone the wrong way in America because in many ways, I pioneered the use of video which eventually became digital video. Everyone can do it; it's Pop Art time: "Everything is art, why should you take it so seriously, after all it's kind of like a clambake." I don't buy that.

  Rob Nilsson

  Art, Thinking, America

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• When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.

  Tracy Morgan

  Kids, Age, Acting

  "Tracy Morgan ‘Cop Out’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get to say whatever they want, whatever pops into their head. It's an opportunity to write the last draft of the screenplay as you're working on it.

  Ivan Reitman

  Believe, Writing, Opportunity

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• When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious."

  Roxane Gay

  Reading, Writing, Hey

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Play, Feelings, Wish

  "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas (Condensed Version)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

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• When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

  John Currin

  Art, Fun, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.

  Gerard Cox

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

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• I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

  Jason Shawn Alexander

  Space, Pieces, Kind

  "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.

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