When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.
I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
[On Pam being a Rosicrucian] Alvy Singer: I can't get with any religion that advertises in Popular Mechanics.
I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level.
Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.
The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.
At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.
I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.
At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.
'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.
No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
