Quotes About Expression

Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

I'm very into familiar things, popular things. I'm into things that no one seems to know about or be into. I'm trying to draw a line between those two things and make it clear... that it all makes sense to me. That it's not disparate. That it's all one thing inside me.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.

In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture.

I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.

Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I'm saying? Like, c'mon.

I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.

It's not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

All language is a popularity contest.

There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear.

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.