Quotes about Pop Culture

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. Votes: 3

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change. Votes: 3

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls. Votes: 3

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving. Votes: 3

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. Votes: 3

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore. Votes: 2

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times. Votes: 2

Pop culture was in art Now, art's in pop culture in me Votes: 2

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit. Votes: 2

I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account. Votes: 2

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly. Votes: 2

I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater. Votes: 2

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture. Votes: 2

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references" Votes: 2

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. Votes: 2

She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her? Votes: 2

When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends. Votes: 2

A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest. Votes: 2

Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action. Votes: 2

Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss. Votes: 2

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go. Votes: 2

I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story. Votes: 2

Once Indians become more visible in pop culture and thus more humanized, then it actually chips away at discrimination. Especially after 9/11, it became important for those stories and that human element, for the Muslim, the Hindu, the Sheikh communities to be heard. That's what I hope I get at with the music. Votes: 2

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication. Votes: 2

Other 'Christian' girls may watch the same movies, listen to the same music, wear the same clothes, and have all the same pop culture addictions as the rest of the world with just slightly higher morals tacked on. But God has called us to a higher standard-the very standard of Jesus Christ. And I believe it's time we become worthy of the calling we have received. Votes: 2

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture. Votes: 1

It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents. Votes: 1

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. Votes: 1

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night. Votes: 1

Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows. Votes: 1

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. Votes: 1

I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes. Votes: 1

Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color. Votes: 1

The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules. Votes: 1

The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives. Votes: 1

I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them. Votes: 1

Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from. Votes: 1

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!' Votes: 1

Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism. Votes: 1

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important. Votes: 1

I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast. Votes: 1

I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to. Votes: 1

I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model. Votes: 1

Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world. Votes: 1

I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings. Votes: 1

Pop culture mirrored the segregation. Votes: 0

Pop culture is like our subconscious. Votes: 0

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable. Votes: 0

I'm forever a part of pop culture. Votes: 0

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. Votes: 0

I think there's real currency in pop culture. Votes: 0

Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely. Votes: 0

I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know. Votes: 0

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail. Votes: 0

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail." Votes: 0

The rift between culture and pop-culture has never been greater. Votes: 0

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture. Votes: 0

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke. Votes: 0

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever. Votes: 0

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow. Votes: 0

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture. Votes: 0

I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture. Votes: 0

I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture. Votes: 0

I love pop culture. I love gossiping about all the different stars. Votes: 0

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon. Votes: 0

Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture. Votes: 0

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution. Votes: 0

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes. Votes: 0

To see how YouTube has become part of pop culture, it's been just amazing. Votes: 0

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture. Votes: 0

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture. Votes: 0

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious. Votes: 0

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically. Votes: 0

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images. Votes: 0

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood. Votes: 0

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, wed live in a better place. Votes: 0

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture. Votes: 0

In pop culture news, Lady Gaga got married. And yes, she was wearing white meat. Votes: 0

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place. Votes: 0

I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped. Votes: 0

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture. Votes: 0

The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture. Votes: 0

People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from. Votes: 0

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all. Votes: 0

Awards are great, but they're not who you are, and pop culture isn't who you are. Votes: 0

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it? Votes: 0

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. Votes: 0

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want. Votes: 0

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light. Votes: 0

I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in. Votes: 0

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is. Votes: 0

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion. Votes: 0

They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture. Votes: 0

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize. Votes: 0

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos. Votes: 0

Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween. Votes: 0

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city. Votes: 0

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good. Votes: 0

The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star. Votes: 0

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. Votes: 0

I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk. Votes: 0

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting. Votes: 0

It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary. Votes: 0

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger. Votes: 0

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music. Votes: 0

I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar. Votes: 0

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people. Votes: 0

Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment! Votes: 0

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it. Votes: 0

Everybody can remember outfits like Celine Dion's backwards Dior tuxedo... these 'worst' dresses become part of pop culture, and we keep referencing them. Votes: 0

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism. Votes: 0

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future. Votes: 0

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real. Votes: 0

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is. Votes: 0

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV. Votes: 0

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture. Votes: 0

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture. Votes: 0

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture. Votes: 0

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about. Votes: 0

I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from? Votes: 0

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop. Votes: 0

Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that’s always in style is color, Votes: 0

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die. Votes: 0

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like. Votes: 0

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture. Votes: 0

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement. Votes: 0

This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star. Votes: 0

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference. Votes: 0

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue. Votes: 0

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it. Votes: 0

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves. Votes: 0

Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It's now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Votes: 0

If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties. Votes: 0

There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me Votes: 0

I grew up in this little farm town, and I've always dreamt of Hollywood and pop culture, and then I suddenly found myself plopped in the middle of it. Votes: 0

That's the problem with you nearly immortal types," I said. "You couldn't spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus. Votes: 0

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream. Votes: 0

We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do. Votes: 0

In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many other stories to tell. Votes: 0

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist. Votes: 0

Although, okay, in Scotland, the boys wear the skirts. But as far as pop culture, women were on the forefront of the unisex movement and I'm grateful to you. Votes: 0

MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously. Votes: 0

I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself. Votes: 0

Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music. Votes: 0

Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society. Votes: 0

Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture. Votes: 0

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture. Votes: 0

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan. Votes: 0

First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever. Votes: 0

Beware young brides: The cruelest behaviors on earth are done in the name of, what some call, 'love.' Therefore, the Shulamite does a much better job at defining love than pop-culture.pg 4 Votes: 0

I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life. Votes: 0

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture. Votes: 0

There's this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they were just in the right place at the right time, they'd be married to Heidi Klum. Votes: 0

Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime. Votes: 0

That was something that I learned from Alan Ball from "Six Feet Under." He didn't really like to have too many pop culture references because they don't really hold up after a few years. Votes: 0

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first. Votes: 0

Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business. Votes: 0

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies. Votes: 0

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning. Votes: 0

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal. Votes: 0