Pops Quotes - Page 29

• I like adding little elements into the final mix. I'm more fond of the '70s glam than '80s. I have that style of vocals... there are a lot of pop artists who are using the glam vibe in their music. I'm part of that wave.

  Adam Lambert

  Artist, Style, Littles

  "BWW Exit Interview: 'IDOL' Adam Lambert". BWW Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. May 23, 2009.

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• There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.

  Peter Kreeft

  Egalitarianism, Two, Psychology

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• If you are going to worship a guy who was crucified, don't expect life to be pop and Skittles.

  Mark P. Shea

  Guy, Worship, Skittles

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• Foreign news is considered an expletive. Thoughtfully written analysis is out, 'live pops' are in. 'Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers, not writers. Do powder puff, not probing interviews. Stay away from controversial subjects. Kiss ass, move with the mass, and for heaven and rating's sake, don't make anybody mad- - certainly not anybody you're covering, and especially not the mayor, the governor, the senator, the president or the vice-president or anybody in a position of power. Make nice, not news.

  Dan Rather

  Nice, Moving, Kissing

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• P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.

  Stephen Fry

  Simple, Long Walks, Average

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• The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mother, Song, Mean

  "Bob Dylan's original manuscript for Like a Rolling Stone's lyrics goes on sale". www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think it's important for us to continue to do that, and I don't see enough of it today.

  George Duke

  Healing, Artist, Reflection

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• I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

  George Harrison

  Stars, Want, Film

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• You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.

  Roger Waters

  Song, Writing, Names

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• I don't like pop music.

  Michael Jackson

  Pop Music

  "Interview with Trevin Wax". www.imdb.com.

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• And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

  Feist

  Simplicity, Joy, Littles

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

  Feist

  Song, Lying, Simple

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Important, Classic, Boring

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• Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

  Bono

  Children

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• When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Drinking, Mask, I Can

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really liking, and Copeland is a guy who was playing in sort of a rock band, or a rock-pop band, but he didn't want to do the traditional kind of rock drumbeat. He was doing all these kind of reggae rhythms, and the reggae style is almost an exact opposite of the rock mold of drumming.

  Panda Bear

  Rocks, Opposites, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. They're printing the comics so small that most strips are just talking heads, and if you look back at the glory days of comic strips, you can see that they were showcases for some of the best pop art ever to come out.

  Matt Groening

  Art, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

  Matt Groening

  Composer, Classical Composers

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

  Nicki Minaj

  Inspiration, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like I'm a designer, not a pop star. But if certain people think of me like a pop star, then the only thing I could do about this is dye my hair black and cut it short maybe.

  Nicki Minaj

  Stars, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love rock, pop, and funk. I love being able to blend these three and create something unique for people.

  Joe Jonas

  Unique, Love Is, Rocks

  "Get Ready to Dnce". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

  Paul Bowles

  Artist, Clay, Gertrude

  Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When we go into the 80's it has more of a pop feel. But it's what I wanted to do. I wasn't trying to reach. See, that's the thing with me, I never wanted to reach any particular crowd. I'm writing for myself. If I don't like it I won't play it for anybody.

  Shuggie Otis

  Writing, Play, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

  Anne Fletcher

  Reading, People, Stuck

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

  Anthony Hamilton

  Men, Different, Albums

  "R&B artist Anthony Hamilton". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 14, 2012.

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