Pops Quotes - Page 31

• I would love to embody the attitude of Iggy Pop or Keith Richards: a ballsy mentality. Stylistically, I love Vivienne Westwood - those capes! I'm obsessed.

  Kesha

  Attitude, Capes, Keith

  "Ke$ha: There's a Real Girl Underneath All That Glitter". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.

  Jessica Simpson

  Stars, Athlete, Competition

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Rocks, Sides, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I sing songs from the theater and pop songs. When I say 'pop songs,' I mean from the 90's. And I tell jokes. So it's sort of a stand up show meets a concert - not your traditional lounging across a piano cabaret show. It's much looser.

  Laura Benanti

  Song, Mean, Piano

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.

  Michael Hersch

  Issues, Simplicity, Concerts

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• The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Rocks, Dna, Rock And Roll

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• My son traveled the world with me on every tour. He wasn't a lover of school, so it was easy with him. I had a tutor on the road, keep him at the same level, so when he'd pop back home he'd go right back in.

  Gloria Estefan

  Home, School, Son

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've got to really listen hard to somebody who's doing a good melody and a good lyric.

  Barry Manilow

  Country, Interesting, Gone

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You never know exactly what pop cultural moment a show is going to step into.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Steps, Moments, Shows

  Source: deadline.com

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• No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!

  Muhammad Ali

  Soda Pop, Alcohol, Pork

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2009

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• I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

  Kimbra

  People, Challenges, Pop Music

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• I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.

  Joe Piscopo

  Art, Night, Portraits

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• I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

  Neal Schon

  Play, Musician, Want

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• I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.

  David Bowie

  Looks, Spices, Ships

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• Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

  Ellen Page

  Reality, Perception, Firsts

  Source: waytooindie.com

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• If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.

  Erik Wolpaw

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I was gonna open a gym and was in negotiation to buy the gym I was working out at. It was a small mom-and-pop and (the owner) wanted to move back to the west coast. My wife at (that) time came down with skin cancer.

  Drew Waters

  Mom, Cancer, Moving

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

  Nick Zinner

  Fans, Culture, Alternatives

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Sometimes just being an immigrant, I read things the wrong way, and that can be funny. Or I'll put the emphasis on the wrong word, and that can be funny. I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.

  John Cho

  Player, Love Is, Dvds

  Source: collider.com

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• I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Smart, Rocks, Oasis

  Source: collider.com

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• A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.

  E. B. White

  Style, Spirit, Imagine

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was.... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don't think pop artists feel that way.

  Jim Dine

  Artist, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.

  Rob Brezsny

  Nihilism, Opinion, Influence

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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• Staying away from junk food and the pops-it's something that, for me, is harder than doing the actual workouts. It's so easy to get off-track. Like when you're out with your buddies and they're stopping at McDonald's. You can't have a Big Mac with them.

  Steven Stamkos

  Workout, Mcdonalds, Track

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• I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

  Gary Numan

  Song, Writing, Car

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 2, 2011.

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