Quotes About Trends

I am only interested in money because everyone else is.

You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.

The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.

China is a keen observer of trends elsewhere in the world, and it's going to give our own innovators a run for their money.

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.

My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to wear fitted jeans in high school. This is when big jeans were popping.

On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

I love this young people's music.

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

Most things in music go full circle eventually.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.