Peter Frampton Quotes

You do something you're really quite proud of, and the public doesn't like it. Then you do something that perhaps you're not at all happy with and the public loves it. And that's the moment of truth, because it's the audience that's the final judge.

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.

Critics can get you critical acclaim - nothing more than that. Success or failure depends on the public.

It's not about what's a good or bad score at the Oscars, rather what's exposed to the ears more.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who don't like Robbie Williams but he is presented to the public in such a way that they have no choice.

I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

Give the public what it wants.

... the populace is variable and inconstant, so that, if a reputation be not kept up, it quickly withers away.

He whose honor is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation.

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

The reason the public loves me is that they understand everything that I do. The reason they love you is that they understand nothing of what you do.

I've never looked at myself as this pop candy type.

I have acquired - some would say deservedly - quite a few rivals: former Israeli politicians, some of whom at their height were stars beloved by large parts of the public. But today, they aren't in politics, and when they sit alone in their room, they say to themselves that Barak is the one who showed them out the door.

I felt like people weren't going to accept me as a pop artist.

I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

I was on 'X Factor' the day after the Brexit vote. People voted for Brexit. But the public also voted for me, they wanted me to be there and part of the music industry. I haven't felt any bad effects.

I get called everything from 'Mr Boombastic' to 'Mr Lover Lover' to 'Mr It Wasn't Me.' It's whatever is hot at that point.

I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.