David Bailey Quotes

I don't really know or care about trends.

You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit.

I ain't trying to keep up with the trends - the hats, the hair colours, the dress codes.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

I'm not really into trends.

If you start shaping everything you do trying to be in step with whatever is going on in the world, you're often out of step by the time people hear it. It's a bit like fashion.

I don't go looking for new fads.

We were never the trendiest band, but we've always been here.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

You've got to remind yourself all the time that you're being measured against the fashions of the day, and if your work truly has any kind of staying power, well, people will be talking about it in 20, 30 years.

I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.

[My music] is opposite to fashion.

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

And so my music, it doesn't matter if I did it 20 years ago or if I did it tomorrow. It doesn't go with trends. My trousers don't get wider and tighter every six months. My music just stays what it is, and that's the way I like it.

I've never been a person who focused on trends. I'm influenced and inspired by trends, but I don't always subscribe to them.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Fashion has to be about what is.