Pops Quotes - Page 6

• If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Play, Together

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

  Eberhard Weber

  Stars, Thinking, Musical

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• Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Mistake, Views, Two

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• As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.

  Scott Ian

  Metallica, Bigs, Gaga

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• Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Culture, Very Good, Knows

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• Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.

  Robert Indiana

  Art, Spring, Eye

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• I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.

  Chrissie Hynde

  School, Mean, Knowing

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• For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get too personal - but I look at myself as a reporter. If you can report on anything that has to do with pop culture, then why can't I make jokes about it? Yes, it hurts. But I figure that laughter sometimes starts from pain. You might wince, but then I know that I'm doing my job. The only thing I can do wrong is not be funny.

  Chris Rock

  Hurt, Jobs, Laughter

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

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• I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly

  Nicki Minaj

  Song, Mean, Pelicans

  Song: Super Bass, Album: Pink Friday

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• Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing else matters-not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That’s all.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.24, Seal Press

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• If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

  Wanda Jackson

  Writing, Mind, Easy

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• I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

  Doc Severinsen

  Play, Focus, Jazz

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• Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

  Peter Steele

  Song, Writing, Style

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• You don't know a thing about me

  Kelly Clarkson

  Song, Proxy, Knows

  Song: Mr. Know It All, Album: Stronger, 2011

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• I- I love you like a love song, baby
  And I keep hittin' repeat-peat-peat-peat

  Selena Gomez

  Baby, Song, Love You

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• 'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Heaven, House

  Song: Yoü And I, Album: Born This Way: The Remix, 2011

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• Ladies love me
  I'm on my cool J

  Chris Brown

  Song, Popular Song, Lady Love

  Song: Look At Me Now, Album: Boy In Detention, 2011

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• Takin' out my freak tonight

  Britney Spears

  Song, Tonight, Freak

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