Cultural Cycles Quotes

Life and values do run in cycles.

People have been saying rock is dead for years, but the reality is that it just falls out of favor with pop culture from time to time.

Every ten years, we get a new old school. In 1987, we thought 1977 was the best era in hip-hop. Here we are in 2007, and we're discussing '97/'98, when 50 Cent just started.

Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

History goes in cycles.

In the U.K. especially, dance music goes in cycles. It's often kids reappropriating sounds they loved when they were younger, but were too young to be a part of.

I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.

Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...

Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.

The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.

Dance music always goes through its changes; many styles come have their light and go back to the underground 'til it happens again.

Like leggings, comedies created by women came into vogue in the late 1980s, exploded in the early '90s, went mainstream in the mid-'90s, and were shoved into the back of the closet around 1997.

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.