Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?
You live for pretentious metaphors.
Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray.
It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.
Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul. . . . it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.
I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of brown sugar. A decent cookie, not spectacular. Still, a good-hearted cookie, not pretentious. ” I turned to Fang. “What say you?” “It’s fine. ” Some people just don’t have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.
As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly "clever," and trying to keep things as accessible - and singable - as possible.
People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.
If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.
Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.
What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.