#popular

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation. ↗

— Tony Snow

#broke #bush #even #four #george

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#country #country music #form #get #hear

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#been #cross #few #history #into

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#devil #familiar #good #good work #making

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#knew #package #party #popular #republican

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#amongst #because #bump #core #felt

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#computers #developing #development #explicitly #free

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#beloved #christianity #clergy #country #degree

I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#album #become #been #familiar #had

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#areas #considerable #extent #falling #fashion