Pastoral Resources

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

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.

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

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.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

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.

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

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

Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

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.