All Quotes

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.
‐‐ Siouxsie Sioux

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
‐‐ Patti Smith

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.
‐‐ James Wolcott

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
‐‐ Brian Wilson

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
‐‐ Paul Epworth

Pop music has progressed.
‐‐ Morrissey

Pop music I have always loved best.
‐‐ John Lydon

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

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
‐‐ Cliff Martinez

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
‐‐ Peter Tork

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

Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
‐‐ Joan Jett

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work.
‐‐ Sufjan Stevens

Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.
‐‐ Sarah Churchwell

Pop music should be about young people.
‐‐ Gary Kemp

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.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.
‐‐ Paul Weller

Pop music will never be low brow.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

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.
‐‐ Greg Egan

Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.
‐‐ Benny Blanco

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
‐‐ Hal David

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'
‐‐ Ani DiFranco

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

Pop was great fun.
‐‐ Delta Goodrem

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.
‐‐ Peter Slipper

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.
‐‐ John Cornwell

Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity - a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor's bling and Ferragamo shoes - those were pretty entertaining. And he's translating all of that into a policy agenda.
‐‐ Ronan Farrow

Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.
‐‐ Regina Brett

Pope Francis is not the first religious leader who has endorsed evolution and the Big Bang, but he is certainly one of the most influential.
‐‐ Ken Ham

Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.
‐‐ Brian Kilmeade

Pope Francis reminds us of Pope John XXIII because both men share the same lack of self-consciousness, and neither needs to keep his guard up through the use of psychological defenses such as rationalization, projection or intellectualization.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
‐‐ Bill Williams

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.
‐‐ Jerry Costello

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
‐‐ Olusegun Obasanjo

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.
‐‐ Mike Ferguson

Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and I think he benefits greatly from the television close-ups because he wants to engage in a dialogue, in conversation. He wants to put forward his views in a measured, eloquent, rational way.
‐‐ Vincent Nichols

Pope John Paul II was a man of peace, a friend of the Jewish nation... and worked for the historic reconciliation between the nations and for the renewal of diplomatic ties between Israel and the Vatican at the end of 1993.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.
‐‐ Michael Greger

Popov was double Olympic champion in '92 and '96, and then Gary Hall came along and won in 2000 and 2004, and I would be the next on the list. That's a good goal, to have my name on that list alongside these guys.
‐‐ Cesar Cielo

Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

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.
‐‐ Mavis Staples

Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops.
‐‐ Mavis Staples

Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better.
‐‐ Scott Patterson

Popular and good and bad is not the same thing.
‐‐ Cyrus Broacha