Top 100 Pop Pop Pop Quotes
#1. Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.
Nicki Minaj
#2. MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.
Megan Alexander
#3. He couldn't just take her home, bed her, and wait for children to pop out. Somewhere in between, he'd have to talk to her.
Jodi Thomas
#4. In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many other stories to tell.
Jeff Lemire
#5. I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.
Lynn Nottage
#6. My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.
Robin Thicke
#8. Five women working together is never going to be easy. It's a lot. But God is so incredible, in terms of the timing, because we are all married with kids, in our late 30s and 40s. It's a different stage in our lives. It's not about who is going to be the one that's going to pop.
Roselyn Sanchez
#10. I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school ... whatever ... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't have to be told what to listen to. If I like it and it's good, I'll listen to it.
Toby Keith
#11. In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.
Colin MacInnes
#12. My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.
Juice Newton
#13. I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.
Billy Gardell
#14. I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
Cara Delevingne
#15. I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.
Martin Scorsese
#16. I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
John Shirley
#17. When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.
Shane Filan
#18. How bad do you want cancer? Bad enough to eat a rainbow of it? Personally, I think the red cancer would be the worst, but anything you swallow with artificial hues in it is going to pop a tumor out of your body the day after you eat it.
Laurie Notaro
#19. I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.
Santigold
#20. Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.
Grace Hartigan
#21. I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.
Dylan McDermott
#22. I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
Gary Numan
#23. With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.
Joko Beck
#24. What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap.
Casey James
#25. If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
Chaka Khan
#26. We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.
Jonathan Cain
#27. & he ill, he real, he might gotta deal
He pop bottles & he got the right kinda bill
Nicki Minaj
#28. I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
John Mellencamp
#29. It was a ridiculous question. Did I _love_ Char? Did I feel about Char the same way I feel about the Beatles, string instruments in pop songs, the way Little Anthony sang high notes, the way Jerry Lee Lewis played piano?
Leila Sales
#30. New things pop up at the edges, but the middle's where the money is.
Kathleen Rooney
#31. A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.
Tove Lo
#32. While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.
Shawn Amos
#33. May I just single out for salutations, on the 'anti-war' side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam.
Julie Burchill
#34. In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.
Michael Kosser
#35. There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.
Neil Tennant
#36. In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.
Anthony Jeselnik
#37. Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.
Daniel Radcliffe
#38. I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
Robert Wyatt
#40. When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.
Bert McCracken
#41. The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
Gary Numan
#42. There was a time when I was fighting with the decision as to whether or not a Hasidic man could go out and have a music career in the world and be involved in pop culture. For me, I was able to bring those two things together for quite some time.
Matisyahu
#43. Writing catchy pop songs is a super-minor superpower, but it's mine.
J.C. Lillis
#44. I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you and nobody even looks at you funny.
Rick Riordan
#45. Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.
Rob Sheffield
#46. Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
#47. Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.
Michael De Luca
#48. When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home ... piece of cake.
James Marsters
#49. Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.
Bruce Willis
#50. I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.
Michael Strahan
#51. Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.
Nina Persson
#52. I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.
David Sanborn
#53. Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.
Greg Egan
#54. My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Barry Manilow
#55. There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality ... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
Adam Lambert
#56. I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - personally, I wasn't ready to get out there. I don't know. It was a pop group. Not like the Spice Girls, but when you don't have any control over anything, it's disheartening.
Tika Sumpter
#57. Watching the cab speed off, Wahoo's father looked forlorn. "It's like she's leaving us twice," he remarked. "What are you talking about, Pop?" "I'm seein' double, remember? There she goes - and there she goes again.
Carl Hiaasen
#58. Pop music should be about young people.
Gary Kemp
#59. It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.
Cory Doctorow
#60. In country and R&B, there's much more of that division between writers and performers, and that's where you see more of those [crossover] songs, but you don't get a lot of that coming out of the more pop and rock side of things.
Alan Light
#61. I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'
Caitlin Moran
#62. It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or surprising that opens a door into a feeling of comfort, meaning, or familiarity. It is called an aesthetic aha.
Derek Thompson
#63. I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.
Robert Smith
#64. A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.
Iggy Pop
#65. I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.
Patti Smith
#66. Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.
Dan Wells
#67. The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.
Zoe Helene
#68. I approach music- and this sounds crazy- as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff-except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.
Grimes
#69. Lady Gaga is a pop prostitute, a satanic b
with her fascist and demonic secret signs! Her pop prostitution has more to do with bikini advertising than with warmth,
Nina Hagen
#70. The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Leslie Fiedler
#71. Of course I'd like children. But I have to get over my impression that being pregnant is like popping corn. You expand and expand until you pop.
Markie Post
#72. A recent study shows that one hundred per cent of youngsters on hard drugs had at some time in their lives listened to so-called pop music
William Donaldson
#73. Hope is like a balloon. It seems like it swells up just so someone else can pop it in your face.
Betsy Schow
#74. Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ... deadpan funny ... his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.
Ron Miles
#75. I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.
Wes Bentley
#76. She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
Iggy Pop
#77. With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.
Lorde
#78. I never start trouble, I assured him. It just usually seemed to pop up in my vicinity.
Chloe Neill
#79. Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!
Kelis
#80. Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
Gloria Steinem
#81. Got that super soaker pussy pop like cola coka. Plus it's tighter than a choker, got em smilin like the joker.
Nicki Minaj
#82. Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous.
John Varvatos
#83. Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost,
Nas
#84. For me, with the Blue Man Group, I got asked. It was for the Royal Variety Show, which was something I always wanted to be a part of. I'm really interested in things people don't necessarily expect. I did a pop song, but I did it in my own style.
Katherine Jenkins
#85. As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.
Matthew Lillard
#86. I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there's some fun.
Elle King
#87. I've never been in a ditch so low that a run wouldn't pop me out of it.
Marc Parent
#88. I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.
Nicole Richie
#89. I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.
Tony Gilroy
#90. I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.
Eric Whitacre
#91. I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.
Kimbra
#92. I said if anyone calls, Mom, I'll be down in the Big Field, with Pop and Chester and Ted.
Terry Pratchett
#93. There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
Ben Folds
#94. I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.
Jennifer Ellison
#95. GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together.
Steven Adler
#96. For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.
Jonathan Lethem
#97. When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big.
Jonas Carpignano
#98. In the '80s, they were using an awful lot of technology but hadn't really figured out how it worked yet ... You had these really great, simple pop songs turned into these gigantic overproductions.
Adam Schlesinger
#99. To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that'll be know for three weeks and then you'll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it'll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it'll be in the world forever.
Michael Jackson
#100. Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.
Warren Stephens
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