Pops Quotes - Page 5

• It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

  Howard Schmidt

  Mom, Dollars, Bars

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• And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

  Dan Bern

  Dream, Nice, Littles

  Song: New American Language, Album: New American Language, 2001

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• Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.

  Jay McInerney

  Hero, Rocks, Wish

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• Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.

  Glen Hirshberg

  Impressive, Alchemy, Melody

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• I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

  Mick Taylor

  Book, Shapes, Kind

  The Artist Shop IRC Chat, www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Got that super soaker pussy pop like cola coka. Plus it's tighter than a choker, got em smilin like the joker.

  Nicki Minaj

  Pussy, Ems, Bragging

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• In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

  Syd Barrett

  Theatre, Band, Shows

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• I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.

  Melissa Bean

  Mom, Jobs, Husband

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• A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

  Wendell Berry

  Faith, Teacher, Grandchildren

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.54, Counterpoint

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• I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Night, Trying

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2007.

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• With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

  Frank Sinatra

  Holiday, Years, Musical

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• Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.

  Tim Gane

  Simple, Thinking, Way

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• The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

  Bill Griffith

  Light, Culture, Sides

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• I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Years, Sound

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• I clicked on a pop-up and got caught in a pornado.

  Jack Hodgins

  Caught

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• The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless. Producers are promoting new types of alcoholic beverages as competitors in the huge soft-drink market. Grocery and convenience stores and gas stations stock alcoholic beverages side by side with soda pop. Can Christians who are involved in this commerce be indifferent to the physical and moral effects of the alcohol from which they are making their profits?

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Christian, Wine, Beer

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• Unfortunately, I don’t actually don’t have any scenes with Michael Bolton. There’s an exposé done on Sue Sylvester, and he pops up on the screen to basically just say he has no idea who I am. That’s the father of my child!

  Jane Lynch

  Children, Father, Who I Am

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• Eventually I would like to reach the stage where I don't have to write about love and kisses and all that stuff. I wish I could write about really ultimate things. That's where I think all of us want to go, really. All the groups seem to be heading towards a kind of pop music that deals with ultimate things.

  Eric Burdon

  Writing, Kissing, Thinking

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• I love pointy nails! A cute way to add a pop of color to your nails is to make a V-shape at the ends of them in a pastel color.

  Bella Thorne

  Cute, Color, Nails

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

  Iggy Pop

  Ifs

  "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.

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• I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.

  Kris Allen

  Doe, Different, Littles

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