Evolving Preferences Quotes

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

A lot of my fans are people who have grown up and don't have as much time to listen to the radio, but still want to keep up with what's popular. A lot of shows don't talk to them anymore, but I do.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

It isn't an easy thing to cater to a public that gets tired of anything in about three days.

Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a different attitude.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

I think I have better taste now than I did then.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

Most of my youth I spent being obsessed with Baby Spice, so she was my favorite for a really long time. Now that I'm older, I actually really like Posh Spice the best. Nineties Victoria Beckham is perfection, I think.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

In my 30s, I became more open to music other than country or bluegrass.

I think that just your tastes change as you get older and I think they'll continue to change.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

My movies are always being played on television, I'm very well known and all that stuff - I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it's wonderful. But now I'm at a point where...I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.

I think there are people that still hold on that like Heavy Metal like a bit of what is going on now, but it isn't all of what they love and which goes on and it's the same with me... There's still a lot of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke songs that I still happen to like a lot, but then there are a lot of Madonna and... a lot of the female singers that I like as well, but it's like liking it with different emotions, you know.

If you repeat what you did in the last tour, the likelihood is it's not gonna be successful twice. People are nostalgic about a particular record, because it's about the time when they were listening to that record. But if you do it again, they're like, I'm not that guy anymore.

It does feel like the middle ground has fallen out. I'm only saying that from personal experience, saying, "I'd like to make that movie" and hearing, "Oh, they're not making those types of movies anymore."

Yellow's never been a good color for me, but it's actually grown on me. I like it more than I used to!

Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.

I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like horror movies and now I couldn't stand them.

So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.

In a few years, we might not still be into Instagram, but hopefully I'll be into the next thing and have fun do it.