Pops Quotations

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.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

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.

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

When I went to visit this rice cake plant, I hadn't realized how the rice cakes were made. As soon as I saw the molds of rice and how the heat pops it like popcorn, the light bulb went off. This is popped. This isn't baked or fried.

Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

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

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

I play a character called Lieutenant Delcourt who, in the original comics, pops up from time to time to rescue Tintin. I guess if you've grown up watching movies like 'Jaws' and 'Indiana Jones,' it's pretty surreal to find yourself on set with Steven Spielberg directing you.

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

I come up with the ideas for my videos, and I write the lyrics and choreograph them, and I direct them and tell everyone what to do and how I want them to sing the parts and do the tongue pops and eye rolls and stuff like that.

I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.

I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out of that and think, 'What would Said say about that,' and then it gets complicated.

I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

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.

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

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

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

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

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.

If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

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

These things were happening in my life where I was like, 'Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.' I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn't saying, 'I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee's.'

My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day.

I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.

I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.

I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.

I never expect I would become a K-pop star.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

For my prom I really wanted to wear a bright color - something that was going to pop and stand out.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

It's funny, my kids and I live together, and I have a lot of actor friends. So my kids think everyone is on television every now and again, since everyone they know pops up here, but there's a whole rap of things they won't watch until they're 16 or 17.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.

You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins

I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

So let's say you're using XYZ product and you want to do something very sophisticated. You subscribe to this thing, you hit a button, and a CA expert pops up in video.

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

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.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

I've got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

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.

There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

I like to sort through music and see whatever pops out to me or inspires me. If I could have a production team going and kind of mix records with me, that would be cool; to take the records and have them sound the way I want them to sound. But I'd rather sort though music to find them things.