Pops Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• It is time that we allow the Word of God, not the glamorized lies of Hollywood to become the cornerstone of our convictions, thoughts, and attitude. It is time we trade the emptiness of pop culture entertainment for the real-life adventure of a Christ-built existence. Only then will truth reign and rule in our lives. Only then will our lives make an eternal impact for His glory.

  Leslie Ludy

  Attitude, Lying, Real

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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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• When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Writing, Keys

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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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• Pop art is
  the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

  Robert Indiana

  Dream, Art, Optimistic

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• When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them

  Rowan Pelling

  Phones, Elderly, Editors

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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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• Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful

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• Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Space, Empty, Scales

  "Lawrence Krauss On 'A Universe From Nothing'". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 13, 2012.

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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 think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he's done a great job of it. I think Katy Perry has undeniable songs for what she does, for that pop market. And, if we're talking in the truly pop market, I would say those two.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Song, Jobs, Thinking

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

  Jack Nicholson

  Art, Pieces, Proud

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

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• I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

  Bryan White

  Music, Country, Guy

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• I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.

  Caroline Rhea

  Teenager, Magazines, Beats

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• If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.

  Shawn Wayans

  Culture, Jokes, Knows

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• In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Song, Rocks, Rhythm

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2013

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• How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Character, Rocks, Who I Am

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

  Robert Wyatt

  Music, Swimming, Thinking

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• The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

  Charlie Simpson

  Jobs, Fun, School

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• Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, Generations, Safari

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• The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

  John Corigliano

  Thinking, Challenges, Technique

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• We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Light, Hands

  Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1857). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Literati”, p.499

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• All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

  Kesha

  Song, Men, Names

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

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• It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.

  Rob Zombie

  Running, Song, Rap

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