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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. ↗

— Dan Stevens

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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

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I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all. ↗

— Allison Williams

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There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

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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

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I know I'm unpopular. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

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I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine. ↗

— Fred Davis

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Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

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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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