Quotes About Influence

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

I want an audience that we might call a pop audience. Cross over to pop. Cross over to R&B. And bring those people to Brubeck and Chick Corea, you dig? A lot of people found Dave Brubeck and Chick Corea because they came to hear 'We're in This Love Together' and 'After All.'

Country is and always will be my heart, but I don't have a problem with it spilling over into pop if it wants to.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

Prince is one of my biggest idols of all time, and he's the real King of Pop.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

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

Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that.

My goal is to show the intermingling between politics and pop culture.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

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

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole life. I'm a product of pop culture. I'm a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

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

I feel like I'm changing pop culture.

I look up to people like Michael Jackson because he set up pop culture.

I make pop culture.

That's a good sign for a movie: When it becomes part of the lexicon and pop culture for an entire generation. I've been in many movies, luckily, that get quoted.

I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.