Pop Culture Quotes

Pop Culture Quotes is an ongoing public interest project that shares quotes from the famous (and the infamous).

Tim Cook | PopCultureQuotes.com

We’ve had a long relationship with music, and music has had a rich history of change, some of which we’ve played a part in.

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By: Tim Cook

Context:
Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces Apple Music at the 2015 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).

Thom Yorke | PopCultureQuotes.com

It's really upsetting that artists I respect think we are not capable of making a moral decision ourselves after all these years. They talk down to us and I just find it mind-boggling that they think they have the right to do that.

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By: Thom Yorke

Context:
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke hits back at campaign to stop the band from playing a concert in Israel. The petitioners included Nobel Prize-winning anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, novelist Alice Walker and Thurston Moore of alternative rock pioneers Sonic Youth.

source: www.dailymail.co.uk,  

Lana Wachowski from Jupiter Ascending | PopCultureQuotes.com

When I was young, originality was everything. A sequel was like a bad word. We’ve gone to the opposite place where [audiences] actually are more excited about a story we know the ending to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTs0nvrMUA

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By: Lana Wachowski

Context:
The filmmaker - in a rare interview with the Los Angeles Times - talking about how the just-released film she made with her brother Andy Wachowski, Jupiter Ascending, might fare at the box office. There's another great quote by Brent Lang, the source article's writer, about the current state of the movie business: "Jupiter Ascending may have crashed and burned, but at least it tried to soar on the strength of its own originality and daring. Its failure makes it harder for other filmmakers to get a chance to take similar risks. In this climate, would The Matrix ever have gotten made?"

source: variety.com,  

Russell Simmons | PopCultureQuotes.com

Hollywood should lead the way in healing. . . Hollywood should not be afraid of the subject matter Norman Lear dealt with 35 years ago.

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By: Russell Simmons

Context:
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons - speaking at the 2015 NATPE Conference - had harsh words about the lack of diversity he has encountered in Hollywood, since turning his focus to producing movies, TV shows and digital content. The event comes during a difficult time for race relations, after a series of police-involved shootings of black men.

source: variety.com,  

Ernie Paniccioli | PopCultureQuotes.com

I believe the spirit that imbues hip-hop can change the world. Hip-hop as an entity has been colonized by corporations, politicians.

It went from something that was organized to something that is crafted and plastic.

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By: Ernie Paniccioli

Context:
Hip Hop photographer Paniccioli commenting on his thoughts about the current state of hip hop culture and how it's changed. The comments were made during an exhibit of his shots of hip hop artists such as Nas and many others.

source: www.nj.com,  

AJ Cooper III | PopCultureQuotes.com

All I can say is that all of the emotions you are feeling need to be channeled into political power. Let that burning feeling in your gut be the fuel to power a movement. Otherwise when the smoke clears all we will have left are tears and ashes.

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By: AJ Cooper III

Context:
Cooper wrote this on his Facebook page in response to anger about Officer Darren Wilson‘s non-indictment in the shooting death of Michael Brown. The former host of BET‘s Teen Summit and burgeoning politician passed away weeks later from a sudden illness.

source: hellobeautiful.com,  

Chris Rock | PopCultureQuotes.com

When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before…

So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress. There's been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there, would you say their relationship's improved? Some people would. But a smart person would go, "Oh, he stopped punching her in the face." It's not up to her. Ike and Tina Turner’s relationship has nothing to do with Tina Turner. Nothing. It just doesn't. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let's hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

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By: Chris Rock

Context:
Rock gives his impressions of race relations in America during an interview with New York Magazine's Frank Rich. The interview came at the time of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown was shot and killed by a local police officer.

source: www.vox.com,  

Diem Brown | PopCultureQuotes.com

It's my personal perspective that you live as hard and as vigorously as you can. My goals are something I believe in, because I believe I'm going to make it.

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By: Diem Brown

Context:
Reality show star Diem Brown, on her fight with cancer. It was a battle she lost on Friday, November 14th, 2014 at 10:22 a.m. in New York City. She was 32 years old.

source: www.people.com,  

Martin Armstrong | PopCultureQuotes.com

Is this just turning into thugs with badges who just enforce whatever law some nut-job politician writes? What if they passed a Herod type law to curb population and decree that everyone must kill their first-born.

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By: Martin Armstrong

Context:
Armstrong supposes that there will be a serious political uprising in America by 2016, should the economy turn down, partly because of corruption and income inequality.

source: armstrongeconomics.com,  

James Cameron from Terminator | PopCultureQuotes.com

We’re burdened with a consciousness, and that consciousness allows us to think ahead. Our daydreams and nightmares project future simulations, which we then hold ourselves up against to see if we can cut it... Ultimately, dark futures are always more interesting in movies than bright, utopian ones.

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By: James Cameron

Genres: Science Fiction

Context:
Cameron comments on the "Allure of the Apocalypse" as a movie theme at the 30th Anniversary screening of his 1984 cult classic sci-fi thriller The Terminator. The screening took place at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

source: variety.com,  

Tim Berners-Lee | PopCultureQuotes.com

If a company can control your access to the internet, if they can control which websites they go to, then they have tremendous control over your life. . .If a Government can block you going to, for example, the opposition’s political pages, then they can give you a blinkered view of reality to keep themselves in power.

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By: Tim Berners-Lee

Context:
Berners-Lee at the 2014 Web We Want festival in London, talking about the need for "Web Magna Carta." The Web We Want movement is dedicated to creating an online Bill of Rights, in order to prevent government overreach.