Popular Song Quotes
79 Popular Song quotes by 72 unique authors
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Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix…
— Nina Simone
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No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true,…
— Aldous Huxley
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the…
— Roland Barthes
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I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a…
— Sammy Cahn
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The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where…
— Barry Humphries
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Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place…
— Alan Brennert
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But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
— Mel Torme
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I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
— Gloria Swanson
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The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
— Thomas Kinkade
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I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.
— Karrie Webb
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My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.
— Julio Iglesias
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Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.
— Duff Green
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American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
— Vincente Minnelli
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
— Karl Kraus
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So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.
— Paul Weyrich
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
— Waylon Jennings
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Whatever is popular deserves attention.
— James Mackintosh
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The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.
— Juliana Hatfield
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Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
— Carrot Top
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And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.
— Bobby Sherman
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Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.
— Marilu Henner
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The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.
— Herbert Croly
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
— Paddy Ashdown
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It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.
— Paul Begala
Who Wrote These Popular Song Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 79 Popular Song Quotes, led by these top contributors: