Popular Song quotes
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"There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all"
"Everything popular is wrong."
"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."
"If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."
"A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing."
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"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"
"True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature."
"Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?"
"Ladies love me I'm on my cool J"
"I'm on the edge with you"