Quotes About Trends

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.

It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.

Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

I think these things social networks are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.

I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

Politics is downstream from culture.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?