Jennifer Egan Quotes

We are part of the zeitgeist, and we are communicating in a human, real way.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Due to the world I've been part of in creating art for so many years, I feel really connected to pop culture and what younger people are talking about.

I love the fact that Inuit poetry may resonate with me as much as Irish.

I think every couple should find an artist that they dig together.

I would hope to make a record that interacts with culture in a macro sense. That is something to aspire to.

My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.

Popular sings are the only art form that describes the temper of the times.

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

I listen to the same things that a lot of my fans do, and I grew up in much the same way they're growing up.

The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.

I feel like people have a lot of the same good times and the same interests pretty much anywhere.

It's on the people to dictate what is relevant and what is moving.

Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.

Fashion is not interesting unless it has some connection to something outside of that world. It's the same thing with any part of the arts: you can't just take pictures - you have to look at science, to listen to music; you have to be aware of the connections within the world. If you take something in an isolated box, it loses all significance.

For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture.

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

I think what Hollywood is learning at large is that there is profitability in stories that are culturally specific and that you can only address the universal through the specific.

It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.

When I used to watch Westerns, I could admire the craft, but I never really loved them; they never spoke to me. Maybe because I'm first-generation American, I'm a woman, and I just didn't see myself reflected.

I love to do subjects that are very common, relatable.

Bands speak for us in this inevitable way that you can't get anywhere else because it is this perfect balance of artistic expression and popular culture.

I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.