Popular culture Quotes

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

— Robert Crumb

“If I must choose, I'd rather be tuned in than 'turnt up'.”

— T.F. Hodge

“One epoch's "popular culture" is another's esoterica.”

— Alfred Appel Jr

I never believe any politician talking about popular culture.

— Howard Jacobson

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

— Pauline Kael

Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.

— Robert Englund

I'm pretty much out of popular culture altogether.

— Noam Chomsky

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

— Carl Bernstein

“A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.”

— Suzy Kassem

“But this is how popular culture works: You allow yourself to be convinced you’re sharing a reality that doesn’t exist.”

— Chuck Klosterman

In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture.

— Melvyn Bragg

I'm in favor of anything that will give strong women more visibility in popular culture.

— James Gunn

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

— Stanley Crouch

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

— Jimmy Iovine

Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces…

— Janet Mock

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

— Robert Wyatt

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of…

— Carl Bernstein

The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few…

— Tyler Cowen

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is…

— Gretchen Rubin

Bands speak for us in this inevitable way that you can't get anywhere else because it is this perfect balance of artistic…

— Taylor Goldsmith

Like Christmas, Easter has lost much of its religious meaning in popular culture. Ask your average kid what the holiday is about…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

“In intellectual and popular culture, war has come to be regarded by many as a peculiar psychosis of Western civilization. This atmosphere…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

We once turned to popular culture because it produced fantasy objects; now, we are asked to 'identify with' the fantasising subject itself.

— Mark Fisher

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history…

— Michael Craig-Martin

There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular…

— John Ridley

The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the…

— Tiffany Shlain

Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about…

— Steven Johnson

Too often, it is presumed that young people will only like art that they can immediately relate to. Working-class students may be…

— Munira Mirza

Evolution is too important not to be the root, the trunk and the canopy of popular culture. And too significant not to…

— Steve Fowler

In popular culture, there is this notion that African-American men and women can't get together, and we're having these issues. I think…

— Salim Akil

In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of…

— George W. Bush

For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness…

— Michael Hayden

“I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs…

— Bob Dylan

Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“The city had seemed like a great place to discover who you are. It just seemed that there was a lot to…

— Sari Botton

If we're having a glitzy over-the-top moment, fashion is very glitzy and over-the-top, you know, over-the-top. If we're having a moment where…

— Tom Ford

“Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various…

— Terri Windling

“When one looks back across a chasm of seventy years, through a prism of pulp fiction and bad gangster movies, there is…

— Bryan Burrough

“When you're a malleable teenager seeking the approval of others, you can find yourself conforming to what you think other people's tastes…

— Danica Roem

A belief in God may not be fully within me anymore, but there's still a belief in belief. The high drama and…

— Ayana Mathis