Quotes About Relevance

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more meaning and dialogue to hip hop.

A lot of top fighters, what do they do after they retire from fighting? They're real popular. Like Tito Ortiz. They've got so much momentum, they're so popular and then they fall off the face of the Earth. They should take acting lessons. They should keep their fans.

I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.

The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've had.

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

There's no recreating what Michael Jackson and Diana Ross did in 'The Wiz'. We're trying to figure out who these characters are in 2015. How would these times change their motives, change the things they would say and do?

La culpa no es de las leyes de la física, sino del sencillo hecho de que, a veces, lo que los modelos dejan fuera es más importante que lo que incluyen.

Unfortunately, the selection mechanism is often some combination of beauty and shock value, rather than pertinence and accuracy.

Bottom line, the mainline church movement was blindsided by that era and didn't offer thoughtful responses to all that was going on around it. To many young kids in the midst of that tumultuous decade, the church came across as irrelevant and out-of-step with where the world was heading.

That" thing Christie and Priebus so desperately needed was their little fix. Getting calls. Feeling important. Remaining relevant. Being In The Mix. Once you've already determined that "that" is the objective, the justifications only need to match the desired outcome. And so Little Mixes like Christie and Priebus find themselves wrapped in a pretzel of their own rationalizations.

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Work on stuff that matters.

I know that. What's your point?

Any return to the past, to traditional values, will necessarily be mediated by the present.

Since it didn't happen,' said Alberich, 'it can't be important.

If a problem is not worth solving, it's not worth solving well.

He felt that since energy was the only permanent thing in the universe, it was the most (if not only) significant thing.

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

They had it in for us, didn't they? Right from the beginning. Who'd have thought that we were so important?