Best 238 quotes in «pops quotes» category

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...

So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.

Takin' out my freak tonight

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.

The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove rock'n'roll, gospel, and blues. I tend not to value a more pop aesthetic.

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

There is nothing the pop world loves more than a way-out freak.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.

There will never be another Michael Jackson, a huge pop star since (the age of) 7.

The rift between culture and pop-culture has never been greater.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

The whole experience has really stayed with me. Dunsfold pops into my head at the strangest times, and I run the track through in my head. 'I can go faster there and there...'

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.

Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.

Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.

When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to it just because all my friends were getting into pop music and everything, and I remember I just wasn't interested at all. I liked drawing and science.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

When my legs go back you can hear them jangle, once ya pop you can't stop like a can of Pringles.

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep.

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

Which Seat Should I Take?

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.