Pop Quotes

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

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.

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.

My whole point is like, well, if I'm the pop star, then it should be whatever I am. There's, you know, room for Katy Perrys and Adeles and Rihannas and Lady Gagas and Ke$has and me and Pinks. I think what's great about all of us is that we represent something different.

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be.

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

I'm very aware of my spending, but I'm not very aware of my income. There are certain times when I speak to my accountant, or something will pop up, and I'll be like 'oh' but it's not really a frontrunner in my head.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

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.