Pop Quotes

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

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

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

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

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.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.

Pop music has progressed.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Pop music I have always loved best.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.

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.