Pops famous quotes
05-25-2025
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
-- Aaron Huey -
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music
-- Aaron Neville -
Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
-- Aisha Tyler -
It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.
-- Alan Vega -
Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
-- Andrew Dominik -
I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.
-- Anne Hathaway -
It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
-- Belinda Carlisle -
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 -
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
-- Bono -
Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
-- Brian Eno -
I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
-- Camilla Lackberg -
People always say, ‘You look like Iggy Pop,’
-- Carine Roitfeld -
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
-- Chaka Khan -
Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.
-- Charlie Simpson -
It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.
-- Chaske Spencer -
Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
-- Cliff Martinez -
In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.
-- Colin MacInnes -
I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
-- Danny Boyle -
Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
-- Danny Boyle -
I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.
-- Darren Criss -
You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.
-- Dave Lombardo -
What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.
-- David Einhorn -
Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.
-- Doug E. Fresh -
Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
-- Ed Helms -
I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.
-- Gary Kemp -
I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
-- Gary Lineker -
To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.
-- Gerard Way -
The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field
-- Gerry Mulligan -
In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.
-- Giorgio Moroder -
In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.
-- Giorgio Moroder -
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 -
Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.
-- Glen Hirshberg -
It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.
-- Grimes -
Niggas can say they pop molly, but do you really? I doubt it. I can't imagine Kanye popping a molly.
-- Gunplay -
You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.
-- Heather Morris -
I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.
-- Ilona Andrews -
I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen.
-- Jac Holzman -
I clicked on a pop-up and got caught in a pornado.
-- Jack Hodgins -
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
-- Jackie Robinson -
I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.
-- Jane Siberry -
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.
-- Jennifer Michael Hecht -
Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.
-- Jeremy Robinson -
I've got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out
-- Jessica Alba -
That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,†I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.
-- Jim Butcher -
It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.
-- Joey McIntyre -
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
-- John Cusack -
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
-- John Lydon -
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
-- John Mayer -
Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.
-- Jonny Greenwood -
My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.
-- Juice Newton -
Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
-- Julian Casablancas -
My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person.
-- Julian Lennon -
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 -
I know I’m never going to be a big pop star, because I’m not willing to conform,
-- Justin Townes Earle -
You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins
-- Karrie Webb -
Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.
-- Kathleen Battle -
Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.
-- Kelly Clarkson -
I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.
-- Kenny Rogers -
I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
-- Kevin Bacon -
I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.
-- Kim Wilde -
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
-- Larry Niven -
I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.
-- Laurence Fishburne -
A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.
-- Layne Staley -
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
-- Leonard Baskin -
I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.
-- Marc Anthony -
I've never been in a ditch so low that a run wouldn't pop me out of it.
-- Marc Parent -
I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
-- Marianne Faithfull -
I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.
-- Marina and the Diamonds -
I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
-- Marina and the Diamonds -
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.
-- Martha Reeves -
Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.
-- Maud Hart Lovelace -
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
-- Michel Gondry -
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 -
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 have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.
-- Ne-Yo -
It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.
-- Neil Cavuto -
There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.
-- Nicholas Lea -
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 -
Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.
-- Nikki Sixx
