Quotes of: Popular-music Keyword

In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds u...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same....

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

Group membership can modify individuals' perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what psychologists call an "imaginary audience", meaning tha...

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

Gaming was "one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing." But even more than that, "It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity that in my life I desperately need.

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

The human brain takes in information from other people and incorporates it with the information coming from its own senses, neuroscientist Gregory Berns has written. Many times, the group's opinion trumps the individual's before he even becomes aware...

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am w...

Popular Opinion & Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45

Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we stick to it that there is truth (be it of either kind), we do so with our whole nature, and resolve to stand or fall by the results. The sceptic with...

The Will to Believe, Human Immortality, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

Stjepan Hauser

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

Dave Haywood

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Dave Matthews

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Glenda Jackson

There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.

will.i.am

I really love music, and I definitely love playing music and getting to be a part of music.

Tift Merritt

We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

Wayne Coyne

I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

Ashley Tisdale

I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.

David Archuleta

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Ginger Baker

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

Henry Rollins