Top 1200 Pop Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.

I was always interested in comedy and pop culture.

Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

I think pop culture has always influenced society.

I feel like I'm changing pop culture.

I make pop culture.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

I'm forever a part of pop culture.

Black women are so very often stereotyped in pop culture.

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.

Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely.

Awards are great, but they're not who you are, and pop culture isn't who you are.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

Hugh Hefner represented pop culture in a way that no else could.

I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with 'Royals.' I think that song changed everything in the pop scene. All of the sudden, alternative pop music became pop music.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

We live in an ever-changing global pop culture community.

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture. I'm talking about before the Spice Girls - Sassy Magazine, riot grrrl, the Beastie Boys, Nirvana. You had this alternative culture that was very much speaking up on behalf of women and in favor of women.

I'm a great pop culture lover, and I'm not a snob.

Pop culture is the scaffold we all carry around with us.

I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings.

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

If you ask me, I'd say what the world now considers K-Pop began with SM Entertainment. SM was the very first company to take musical influences from Western culture and incorporate Korean culture into that by rearranging and writing lyrics with our style.

I think there's something antagonistic about bedroom pop. We're reappropriating pop and saying you don't have to be an ex-Disney star to make pop music. You can be from Shepherd's Bush and have spent most of your life listening to the Smiths and still make a pop record.

I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people and still will, but I'm not a pop artist. I didn't start from there. I started in underground music. I consider myself an underground artist, as well as a producer.

I think K-Pop is something that sucks people in because it's open. I can do pop, EDM, rock, R&B and it doesn't matter, K-Pop embraces them all.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

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

I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.

I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.

I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge divide between the artist and the fan. And with indie culture that wall is removed. You actually do see the musicians walking around enjoying the show. It's a distinctly different culture and for the 99% of Nirvana fans that caught up with them with Nevermind, my book is gonna give them a whole different take on Kurt [Cobain] and the band.

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

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

I think people assume that whatever kind of music you make is the music you listen to. Don't get me wrong, I listen to tons of pop music and all the music that really inspires Best Coast is very straightforward '50s and '60s pop music, but I've been listening to R&B and rap since I was a kid. I grew up in L.A. It's part of the culture. I listen to anything.

I think pop culture would have survived without me!

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

I see The Gap ads as being a great example of how branding has changed. Those Gap campaigns are pop culture. They've been incredibly powerful. They have had the kind of effect on culture that a hit band has. Just look at The Gap's Khaki swing ads, which were music videos. They had this tremendous impact on the industry - suddenly everything started looking like Gap ads and it became difficult to know who was co-opting whom and who was creating culture.

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place.

Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture... American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.

There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

Black culture is pop culture, Black History Month is every month, and that's something they want us to forget. What better way to remember than to highlight all of our differences as a singular people across the globe?

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

It's amazing that K-pop is spreading around the world as a culture in itself.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

I really enjoy listening to Japanese pop aka J-Pop and I also like listening to anime songs as well. Both of these types of music are unique to Japanese culture and listening to these types of music gets me going.

My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.

I never set out to be a groundbreaking artist in the sense of doing something that's never been done before. I set out to make stuff that communicated quickly and effectively, playing off of advertising, pop art, and pop culture.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

I saw soda pop for $1.20 a six pack. That price messes with your head. You start thinking you're gonna sell soda pop. Suddenly I've got packs of pop with me. "Looking to buy some pop? 50 cents a can. It's not refrigerated because this is a half-assed commitment!"