Quotes About Popularity

It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety; TV confuses people.

If everyone enjoyed something, how good could it possibly be?

The nineties were (and shall always remain) the absolute zenith for bands whose goal was selling records.

Hardcore Gen X-tacy was a fringe concern. Things regularly cited as generationally totemistic were almost always less popular than things devoid of cultural timeliness. Bridget Jones's Diary was more widely read than Jesus' Son. For every album sold by Courtney Love, Shania Twain sold fourteen. Over and over, the gap between what's most associated with Generation X dogma and the behavior of Generation X consumers is illogically vast.

Being interesting has been replaced with being identifiable

The most popular single in the world was "Livin' la Vida Loca," a song about how Pro Tools made Puerto Ricans gay.

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.

Anonymity is the new fame.

Welcome to America, our never-ending, great popularity contest.

You re­al­ize that there's no point in do­ing any­thing if no­body's watch­ing.

That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again.

Hate took the place of love as our measurement of popularity. For it takes everything to be loved. To be loved is to serve as a slave. Hate demonstrates a complete freedom from pleasing others.

Being user friendly doesn't mean you're going to be loved.

Henrietta Swanson: "She was voted young lady most likely to become charming." Sheriff Taylor: "Well, say now. Becoming charming - that is something to look forward to, ain't it.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

All the boys will be after you now.

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

Yet during a twenty-year period there wasn't an American alive who wouldn't have recognized Jimmy Hoffa immediately, the way Tony Soprano is recognized today. The vast majority of Americans would have known him by the sound of his voice alone. From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles. Jimmy

That aura brought his works on Eurasianism massive popularity at a time when there was a hunger for dissident literature, and when any suppressed works automatically gained a reputation for authenticity and truth. He

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

CELEBRITY. One who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of clichés as the first prize.

Radio is for those not famous, or infamous, enough to make The Tube.