#popular culture

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. ↗

— Susan Faludi

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The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it. ↗

— John Corigliano

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

— James Wolcott

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I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

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I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

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Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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