Popular Quotes

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community.

Everything popular is wrong.

You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like "popular."

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.

Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.