Pops Quotes · Page 23

I've never cared about being indie or cool. I wanted to be on 'Top of the Pops.'

— Shaun Ryder

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

— Gerry Beckley

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

— Vera Nazarian

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

— James Wolcott

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

— Branford Marsalis

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

— Colin Meloy

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

— Trevor Dunn

Staying away from junk food and the pops-it's something that, for me, is harder than doing the actual workouts. It's so easy…

— Steven Stamkos

When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture,…

— Dylan Lauren

I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with…

— St. Lucia

There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of…

— Pharoahe Monch

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and…

— Paul Wardingham

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last,…

— Melissa Manchester

The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop…

— Barry Manilow

In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown…

— Del Howison

The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music,…

— Angelique Kidjo

I'm not skilled enough to explain properly how we feel. Not only me, but I'm sure Tony and Tim and Pop feel…

— Manu Ginobili

I don't physically put Appetite For Destruction in and listen to it, but I hear it on the radio or at sporting…

— Slash

When I think about sanctification, a couple things immediately pop into my head. One is how slow it actually is. I think…

— Matt Chandler

To be honest with you, I'm not sure what a pop tune is. I'm sure if I hear it on the radio,…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

I’m telling you right now I could make him pop an aneurysm and no one would know. (Nero) Doesn’t that kind of…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient…

— Stephen Fry

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

— Jackie Chan

I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing…

— Tonya Mitchell

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

— Shirley Manson

"Pop" was a dirty word for a really long time and it feels like that's not the case anymore.

— Lizzy Plapinger

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

— Grace Hartigan

Singles - we hated it, going on 'Top Of The Pops' and all that rubbish.

— Ian Gillan

I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.

— Cynthia Addai-Robinson

I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch…

— Michael Kors

To a toad, what is beauty? A female with pop eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and a spotted back,

— Voltaire

So I take a little sleeping pill, pop it and realize nothing's happening - but something else was happening.

— Jeremy Renner

What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.

— David Einhorn

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

— Voltaire

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

— Travis Barker

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

— Andrew Bird

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

— Lady Gaga

Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done!

— Madonna Ciccone