Pops Quotes

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? (Art Hoppe)
While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music. View quote
Skitch Henderson
It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone. View quote
George Harrison
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life. View quote
David Walliams
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun. View quote
Henry Winkler
I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top of the Pops, thousands on Radio One. View quote
Jimmy Savile
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops. View quote
Doc Severinsen
There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology. View quote
Douglas Trumbull
When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer. (Eddy Arnold)
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be. View quote
Gregg Easterbrook
Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good. View quote
John Otway
Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops. View quote
Ken Kercheval
You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins. View quote
Karrie Webb
I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself. View quote
Marianne Faithfull
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion. View quote
Peter Maxwell Davies
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird. View quote
Robyn Hitchcock
On an iPhone, you touch on the digital keyboard and you know how the letter pops up and shows up bigger so you're making sure you're touching the correct letter? That's Nokia innovation. View quote
Stephen Elop
If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it. View quote
Wanda Jackson
War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm. (Victor Davis Hanson)
And then, when he's been underwater so long I feel certain he's drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. "Don't do that,” I say. "What? Come up or stay under?” he says. "Either. Neither. Whatever. View quote
Suzanne Collins
I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy. View quote
Chris Elliott
Nature must not win the game, but she cannot lose. And whenever the conscious mind clings to hard and fast concepts and gets caught in its own rules and regulations - as is unavoidable and of the essence of civilized consciousness - nature pops up with her inescapable demands. View quote
Carl Jung
I used to do Grade Exams, but my mum will tell you I didn't over-practise for them at all. I never practised, just played. I loved to play. I loved to play a lot* If one mistake is made with young children, it is trying to make them practise rather than just letting them play.' She played hymns at church ('My parents were very religious when we were young') and 'all the Top of the Pops number ones next morning at school. Things like David Bowie's "Life On Mars". That's got a very good piano part. And ever since I was six or seven years old, I always liked Bach - that's why I recorded the Anna Magdalene Notebook, little 16-bar preludes that Bach wrote for children.' I was amazed at how serious the other kids were about the whole thing, much more disciplined than I was, and with this attitude of "Ooh, I can't play sports because I might hurt my fingers" or "I can't listen to pop music because that's really terrible. View quote
Joanna MacGregor