Quotes About Trends

The panoply of consumers has iPhones or the lower-priced clones not because of what they represent but because of what they do.

write what readers want to read, which isn't necessarily what you want to write.

I find that America is moving toward a certain type of government that everybody else is moving away from, and I find that very upsetting to me.

This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating.

I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.

That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.

The Internet has essentially democratized the music industry in terms of what is popular and it's democratized the music journalism industry as well.

We know how fickle the public and the music industry is.

You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.

Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.

I've been hearing what a lot of people been doing and what a lot of people been putting out musically, I've been listening.

It rests in the hands of 'Dreamgirls' and 'Hairspray.' If they're successful, we'll be back on track - people will continue to greenlight musicals. If they don't work, then you're going to see everyone go back to the way it was before 'Chicago.'

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

Of course I live in my time, and I'm really curious. But, at the same time, I don't think it has a direct impact on my work.

The idea was that if it was a cool thing to do online, you should be able to do it on MySpace.

'Fake' used to be an insult, but now it's a badge of honour, with hair extensions, tans and nails all artificial, but looking fabulous.

I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.

I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names.

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

The popularization of culture often ends in its total degradation.

by the 1790's an average American over fifteen years old drank just under six gallons of absolute alcohol each year. . . . The comparable modern average is less than 2.9 gallons per capita. We

The two most obvious English mutations to have occurred in America in the last decade go by the names punk and skinhead.

Yeah, and there's sort of a progression going back to the fifties: Bubbles, Boom Boom, and Blaze begat Bambi, Candy, and Jewel, who begat Sunshine, Brandy, and Cinnamon, who begat Amber, Brittany, and Brie, who begat Reagan, Morgan, and Madison. Madison is a stripper name.

there's sort of a progression going back to the fifties: Bubbles, Boom Boom, and Blaze begat Bambi, Candy, and Jewel, who begat Sunshine, Brandy, and Cinnamon, who begat Amber, Brittany, and Brie, who begat Reagan, Morgan, and Madison. Madison is a stripper name.