Popularity Quotes

“A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.”

“The fact that a book is famous is enough to scare me off.”

“If I have any choice of action, I will not be a popular preacher. A popular preacher is on the very verge of turning the key upon his own usefulness.”

“I never thought I was a great actor. I just thought I was a popular actor.”

“Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.”

“Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music.”

“Popularity is the great enemy of art.”

“Popularity is the applause of the crowd... the important thing is not the counting of heads, but the converting of hearts.”

“I think Vivaldi is a musical genius, and he's just been a victim of his own popularity.”

“A popular man is a man with prejudices.”

“I am the most downloaded woman on the Internet.”

“We were never a critics' band. We were a people's band.”

“You don't get into this business to be popular.”

“My crime is that I was more popular than Nasser.”

“To this day, I don't know what a hit is. I think a hit is a song that's liked by a lot of people.”

“The problem for the other-directed person is not the problem of rising in a rigid hierarchy, but the problem of being popular.”

“I'm not interested in being popular. I'm interested in being effective.”

“I'm like money, everybody likes me.”

“I have no sense of what's popular.”

“Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.”