A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.
The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.
I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.
I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.
I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.
In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia.
Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.
Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
