Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.
It's the latest popular song," declared the phonograph, speaking in a sulky tone of voice. "A popular song?" "Yes. One that the feeble-minded can remember the words of and those ignorant of music can whistle or sing. That makes a popular song popular...
Dwayne: You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work... Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the ...
Excitement is impossible where there is no contest.
Popularity is the small change of glory.
I want to produce the best popular music I can.
The Internet is a politically contested space.
Literature, of course, is not a contest.
It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.
I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the ...
Popular agitation leads to justice.
Marketing is a contest for people's attention.
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
Popular culture is filled with girls.
Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a c...
I'm not a game-show contestant, I'm a U.S. senator.
Popular music sucks so bad right now.
Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
