Pops Quotes
1011 quotes by 759 authors
-
The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand…
— Canvass White
-
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
— Art Hoppe
-
I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen…
— Dani Shapiro
-
Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
— Robert Wyatt
-
In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist…
— Steven Morrissey
-
All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest…
— Steven Morrissey
-
I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic.
— Beyonce Knowles
-
There's a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can't keep shooting pop stars all my…
— Rankin
-
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock…
— George Steiner
-
Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual music, I'm not…
— Ian Anderson
-
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want…
— Joe Strummer
-
I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm…
— Lady Gaga
-
Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it…
— David Lynch
-
I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what…
— Paul Simon
-
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt…
— Conor Oberst
-
Songwriting is ... all about intuition - this thing pops into your head for a reason and it's up to you to follow it. It's…
— Jim James
-
You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have…
— Jimmy Webb
-
I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered…
— Unknown Author
-
There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.
— Miranda Lambert
-
What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative…
— Bjork
Who Wrote These Pops Quotes
759 authors contributed a total of 1,011 Pops Quotes, led by these top contributors: