Whatever is popular deserves attention.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

Everything popular is wrong.

Everything popular is wrong.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

Popularity is glory's small change.

Popularity is glory's small change.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold

Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of read more

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.