Quotes About Popularity

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular.

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

I have popular support.

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

I was very popular in high school.

As I have got older, I have found myself making friends with the ease and swiftness that other people pick up fuzzballs on their jumpers. And I believe it is probably my lack of longing for 'The One' that makes me so popular.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

I'm not trying to become popular.

Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good reason. He was robbing the very institutions, the banks, which had afflicted the people for four years, and after four years nothing was getting any better.

I was young enough to certainly realize the excitement of how popular 'Seinfeld' was.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.

There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.

All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

I've never courted popularity.