Pop Hits Quotes

#1. Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett for their big hits. You know, most of the budget for the record companies in those days went to the classical department - and those were big budget albums.

Tony Visconti

#2. But that was the good thing about Christmas trees, they never judged. They just stood in the corner, looking all stately and wonderful, reminding you that it was the most wonderful time of the year and that all would be well.

Lindsey Kelk

#3. Find someone who makes you smile, because it only takes a smile to make a day better

Paulo Coelho

#4. Everything is this distorted mishmash of pop culture that pulls from this era and that era and is just thrown at the wall. These people have no clue what anything really means. There are guys out there getting a million hits for a video.

Willis Earl Beal

#5. I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.

Pia Toscano

#6. Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.

Little Richard

#7. [R]acial supremacy is merely a matter of dates in history.

James Weldon Johnson

#8. Nick wanted to meet on campus at Love Library. (That was the actual name; thank you for your donation, Mayor Don Lathrop Love.)

Rainbow Rowell

#9. Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

Stephen Sondheim

#10. I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Imelda May

#11. Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

Eddie Van Halen

#12. When I saw Adele, I thought: 'I'll give it an hour before people say I was her,' just because I was fat. When you watch 'X Factor,' you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist?

Alison Moyet

#13. Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.

Bonnie Raitt

#14. It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

Talib Kweli

#15. Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

Angelo Sotira

#16. I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.

Sandra Bernhard

#17. The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

Omar Bongo

#18. [ ... ]No book can be really complete in this life; it has to end where the author's time and understanding end. There is always something left unsaid. I look forward to the life to come as the unending last chapter of all the good books I have ever read.

Kathryn Lindskoog

#19. The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.

Larry Winget

#20. I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

Matt Groening

#21. My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.

Greta Salpeter

#22. Sometimes we don't know how heavily we bleed until our skin is peeled back.

Lila Felix

#23. If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

Pam Brown