Quotes About Trends

As long as Reality TV doesn't get boring, it's good.

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85.

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Generally, musicians find that as they get older, their popularity starts to wane. Pre-Covid, however, I was going through a good phase and finding my live shows were really well received.

Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.

I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over content.

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion as it is for a five- or six-year-old expansion.

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

History has shown that even in a recession, consumers go to shows.

People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

Record companies, they're just like lemmings.

You got to understand: when you go into a record company and give them a something that doesn't sound like what's on the radio, it's hard to sell it.

When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

What people have to realize is this: You have rappers who are popular or whatever for the time being, but that don't mean you necessarily want to dress like them. You may have a guy who sells five million records; do you want to dress like him? When you see me, you think you may want to dress like that guy because that guy is fly.

Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of.

Electric red hair is more for, like, people in their 20s and early 30s.

I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them.