Quotes & Sayings About Pop Pops

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts. — Sir Mix-a-Lot

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. — Jess Walter

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

Madonna is the ultimate pop star of all time, hands down. — Jeremy Scott

I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence. — Enrique Iglesias

I found it incredibly disheartening that in the late '90s, suddenly pop culture became even more misogynistic and more homophobic, and so I criticized Eminem for having lyrics that were egregiously homophobic and egregiously misogynistic. — Moby

There are very few pop people I'm interested in working with. — Ayshay

I personally always hated Pop art. — Peggy Guggenheim

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 like there's a spirit, or intuitive network, that comes through all of us, but most people don't take the time to think about it or remember it. These little things pop into our heads - it's just a process of intuition. The initial thought comes in a baby state, and you work on that some more. — Jim James

I've never been in a ditch so low that a run wouldn't pop me out of it. — Marc Parent

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

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz. — Andy Stanley

I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do. — Ricky Gervais

People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from. — Fran Lebowitz

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like. — Marc Almond

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture. — Eric Kripke

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good. — Jonny Greenwood

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting]. — Halsey

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. — Pete Seeger

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented. — Roger Glover

I listen to zero pop music, which is really weird from someone who makes pop music. — Miley Cyrus

It's not too bad to be a sort of pop icon, you know? It's not too tough to handle. — Lynda Carter

Pop art is a way of liking things. — Andy Warhol

You never know exactly what pop cultural moment a show is going to step into. — Ronald D. Moore

Pop music is awesome, but I like to keep changing it up. — Chaz Bundick

Food for me has to pop, and at Spice Market, the food really pops. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

How was it Holiday put it? Just because crap pops in here- Holiday had tapped her temple-doesn't mean crap has to pop out here. She had touched her lips. The camp leader had also said that supernatural scientists were considering doing medical research to prove vampires were missing the thingamajig that filtered out inappropriate dialogue. Della wasn't sure if Holiday was joking or not. — C.C. Hunter

The function of pop music is to be consumed. — Pierre Boulez

I clicked on a pop-up and got caught in a pornado. — Jack Hodgins

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies. — Glen Hirshberg

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards. — Bill Shankly

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison. — Chaka Khan

God bless pop music and God bless MTV. — Lady Gaga

She's magnificent," Radius said, smiling proudly as he vaulted the steps and followed Aphrodite.
"I can think of a lot of m words that she could be. Magnificent isn't one of them," Stark grumbled.
"Mental and mean pop into my head," I said.
"Manure pops into mine," Stark said.
"Manure?"
"I think she's full of shot, but it's too many words and doesn't start with an m, so that's as close as I could get," he said. — Kristin Cast

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

Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children. — Bono

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day. — Matt Groening

Pop art is about liking things. — Andy Warhol

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days. — Ed Droste

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. — Pete Burns

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible. — Mick Jagger

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything. — Andy Warhol

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject. — Claes Oldenburg

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

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made. — Michael Gira

Everyone remembers the pop-quiz hotshot bit from 'Speed' because it's extremely funny, and it's really smart and really witty. And the notion that action movies can have dialogue that pops just as well as the explosions is something that I hope more people continue to remember. — Graham Moore

Kyle Davis is like malware. He's infiltrated my brain in a sneak virus attack. Every time I try and focus, he pops in my head the same way internet windows pop up faster than you can shut them down. You know when that happens you've opened something you shouldn't have. — Kate McCarthy

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves. — Johnny Marr

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom. — Dick Gregory

Pop art is for everyone. — Andy Warhol

Pop stars should not eat. — Lady Gaga

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight. — Rodney Dangerfield

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too. — Claes Oldenburg

I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then. — Girl Talk

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song. — Andrew Dominik

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads. — RuPaul

I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage. — Stewart Lee

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

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird. — Theo Hutchcraft

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. — Nick Lowe

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics. — Colin Meloy

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

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show — Syd Barrett

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period. — Nile Rodgers

I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music. — Tonya Mitchell

I don't like pop music. — Michael Jackson

Rap is not pop. If you call it that, then stop. — Q-Tip

If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time. — Gary Gulman

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift. — Shauna Niequist

New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original. — Toni Jerrman

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. — Gene Perret

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

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

If you're pop and you don't talk about all the pretty things in life and having sex, then you're not really pop. — Cristian Machado

Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally. — Michelle Chamuel

There's no unicorns that pop out the ceiling and no glitter that pops out of my pocket. It's just regular people in the studio doing what we do. — B.J. The Chicago Kid

I would consider my music like, pop-R&B. So it can reach a lot of people. Pop is popular music. That's what it stands for. So I'm just making music that I know that I like, I know other people will like, and my fans will like. — Justin Bieber

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

I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music. — Lady Gaga

I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own. — Mika.

I live between two things-I live between art and pop all the time, — Lady Gaga

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles. — Thighpaulsandra

Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done! — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Andrew Bird

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. — Chuck Klosterman

I do like to pop in and help my friends out when I can, or be a part of their projects. — Busy Philipps

If you are going to worship a guy who was crucified, don't expect life to be pop and Skittles. — Mark P. Shea

Has anybody ever written a horror pop-up book? The center of the book pops up and opens the gate to the elder gods. Of course you'll want to shrink wrap these books because you want people to buy them before they get sucked into another dimension. — Neil Leckman

Niggas can say they pop molly, but do you really? I doubt it. I can't imagine Kanye popping a molly. — Gunplay

What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this? — Jimmy Buffett

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music. — Lady Gaga

I'm the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do music that anyone can like and enjoy. — Seungri

I'm 41, I'm a woman not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music. — Shirley Manson

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch. — Count Basie

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer. — Linda Ronstadt

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

I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen. — Jac Holzman