Quotes About Trends

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.

With technological advances, there's a very natural curve between cost and complexity and adoption. When the cost and complexity are high, the adoption rate is - let's call it 'modest.'

If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.

Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice.

Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.

Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.

When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.

When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.

I think the stuff that plays on the radio, the majority of it is for teenagers, which is okay. That's what pop radio is about. And some of it is great, and some of it is not.

We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies.

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!

Teenagers aren't loyal to much of anything - especially Internet stuff.

It's not only teenagers who think they look good in pre-holed jeans, and I doubt it's only the superannuated who are amused by Ant and Dec.

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

The '60s look wasn't something I consciously chose, but in my late teens, I found myself styling my hair in a retro way and liking clothes - the shapes and silhouettes - that were from that era. They just reflected who I was.

When I was really young, I had an afro and wore pressed jeans and argyle sweaters. In my teens, I moved on to ripped Levi's jeans, white T-shirts, and cowboy boots.

Why is everyone so obsessed with attracting the young? The Telegraph, Radio 4 - everyone wants a younger audience when everyone knows the population is getting older and older, and that older people have more dosh than young people.