I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
When push comes to shove, the status quo is a very powerful force.
Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
There are people and interests that do not want change. It is not in their interest for this system to change.
Not everyone is going to love you. Not everyone is going to like what you do, and you see a lot of people don't want to let go of the bands that they love. They don't want to move forward. They don't want to let new things come in; they're scared of change. They're scared of new bands taking over their genre. They're just scared of change.
I tend to like things that already exist.
Man is by nature a conservative animal and government is his instrument for preventing rapid change.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past.
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
The adherents of the old order have a powerful ally in the natural law of inertia inherent in humanity which is … a natural defense against change.
My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.
