Quotes About Relevance

On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.

What better example than the World Cup is there of the fact that individual people are irrelevant while impersonal structures are invariant?

The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.

A show is good when there is a meeting of time and space, when time and space become irrelevant.

If you start shaping everything you do trying to be in step with whatever is going on in the world, you're often out of step by the time people hear it. It's a bit like fashion.

Anything Drake drops is timeless. It's always timeless, it's always lit.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don't want to perform a lot of my songs because they don't feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.

I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.

'Frankenstein' is a timeless classic. As science advances, it becomes more relevant, not less. Its fantasy moves closer to fact, its horrors closer to reality.

I think that happens every five years or so when 'Friends' moves to a different channel. I think basically everybody has seen it now. It's so good, and timeless. Actually I don't know if it's timeless, I haven't seen it for years.

I don't even have to drop an album and I pack out shows. That goes with timeless music.

Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.

In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.

I believe what has kept us relevant over the years is not just the fashion which has sometimes been more timely than other times but has also been our messages, which have consistently reflected the context of the world we're living in and what was happening and that which was affecting what we were thinking and what was inspiring us.

I think a lot of times, the historical piece is often a way to comment on the present.

My brothers kept me relevant. They got my back 100%. After all the times I've been incarcerated, they've always had my back.

Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal. They deserve their defeats.

Our business is fashion, and it's about timing and in our case, it's about being relevant and there's nothing more relevant than current affairs.

If a film is good, it will do well irrespective of the timing. Period.

That has been everybody's challenge, above the dancing, the singing, the lines: getting into who these characters would be in 2015. Today's Tin Man is heartfelt, but he wouldn't be soft. Today's Dorothy would be sassy.

I don't give a tinker's damn for posterity.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.