“Interesting also that Jews wrote so much American popular music & this includes rhythm & blues. Titles you'd never have guessed since they have so passed into popular culture.”— Joyce Carol Oates, twitter.com
“You wanna continue just throwing noise at our culture? Do you wanna be a headline or an icon?”— Tom Kapinos, Ron Balls, Jacob Ming-Trent, imdb.com
“Popular culture is made by the people, not produced by the culture industry. All the culture industries can do is produce a repertoire of texts or cultural resources for the various formations of the people to use or reject in the ongoing process of producing their popular culture.”— John Fiske, amazon.com