Pops Quotes · Page 20

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

— John Oates

I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing…

— Amanda McBroom

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it…

— Serj Tankian

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

— Andrew Dominik

Niggas can say they pop molly, but do you really? I doubt it. I can't imagine Kanye popping a molly.

— Gunplay

You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.

— Heather Morris

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

— Tom Stoppard

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing…

— Russell Simmons

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the…

— Philip Roth

There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break…

— Mavis Staples

I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun…

— Rihanna

I don't think the Spice Girls are celebrated as much as they should be. We championed British pop worldwide. We toured everywhere…

— Melanie Chisholm

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty.…

— Lisa Marie Presley

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to…

— Frederick Busch

Vishous screamed. The only thing that was louder was the pop as the hip was relocated, as it were. And the last…

— J.R. Ward

When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If…

— Laura Jane Grace

What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to…

— Julianne Hough

I'm a member of the Recording Academy and I see the way it works and even with the whole voting process it's…

— John Petrucci

I am very determined when it comes to my music, and I grew up just loving those singers who had that urban…

— Stacie Orrico

In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous…

— Tom Shales

Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated…

— Michael Stipe

Lambruscos have been misrepresented by industrial versions that have the soda pop flavor they think Americans want.

— Lidia Bastianich

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

— Dennis Ritchie

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

— Ayshay

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

— James Dyson

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

— David Gilmour

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

— Alice Cooper

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

— Al Yankovic

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

— Kimbra

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

— Ben Kingsley

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

— Patti LuPone

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

— Miley Cyrus

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

— Giorgio Armani

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

— Jim Jarmusch

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like…

— Haruki Murakami

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

— Paul Oakenfold