#pop

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#become #big #brain #collective #communication

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs! ↗

— Bobby Thomson

#cheap #count #down #either #every

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd. ↗

— George Thorogood

#brings #college #crowd #drinking #either

Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it. ↗

— Carrot Top

#games #getting #more #more people #opportunity

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well. ↗

— Pia Toscano

#ballads #big #definitely #hits #i

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#andy #best #campbell #did #example

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' ↗

— Pete Townshend

#called #elegance #felt #holding #i

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#believe #bit #could #i #just

A President cannot always be popular. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#cannot #popular #president

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#anyway #become #came #deal #great