Perspectives

Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all run around in darkened rooms munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
Anonymous

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
Christina Aguilera

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
Andy Warhol

After about three lessons the voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way."
Johnny Cash

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
Ian Anderson

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
Leonard Baskin

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
Trevor Dunn

Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde

Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Neal Boortz

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
Stanley Crouch

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

The psychic space that Pac-Man grew to occupy in the early 1980s popular culture was truly enormous, filling in the vacuum of downtime between 'The Empire Strikes Back' and 'Return of the Jedi' and stepping into the breach vacated by Kiss.
Chris Green

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
Andy Warhol

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
Andy Warhol

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Andy Warhol

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Ralph Inge

"Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?"
John Cusack

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa.
Frank Zappa

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
David Bowie

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
Buddy Holly

I am a spoiled rock star. I am overpaid, over-nourished and overdressed.
Bono

I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.
Madonna

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
Wilson Mizner