Cultural Trends Quotes

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

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

In fad standard time, a day is a month, and a fad that lasts two months is a classic.

There was once a time when I was the hip necklace wearing guy.

History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

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.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way. The wonder washes over them rather than into them, and one of its effects is to make anything shocking or odd suddenly interesting enough to gain a month's celebrity. And so another by-product of our come-one, come-all policy is the tendency to reward cleverness, not art, and to put one more hurdle in the path of the truly original artist.

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this year? Yet social scientists are asked to answer analogous questions. We economists and perhaps psychologists shouldn't overreact to the derision. That is, we shouldn't try to overlay a false sense of precision on our admittedly squooshy work.

There are more people enjoying wine in India, they are interested in exploring new things and I think wine is part of that journey.

When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style became old-fashioned, so I changed it completely.

I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.