Fading Popularity Quotes

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

A lot of times with artists from back in the day, they do a new album and they don't sell as much. People say they love them, and it doesn't always translate to new music.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

In music, trends are always rising and fading in popularity, but nostalgia never dies.

I hate bands that hang around, like, 10 years too long - they're like the drunk at a party you can't get rid of.

It's really difficult to maintain a credible career as you jump from age group to age group and suddenly you're not the flavor of the month anymore; you're not in demand.

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth.

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

When guys leave - whether they decide to leave or they're forced out - there's usually this period of time we see them around the world, and they can ride that WWE wave and use it, and then it goes away. It loses its luster after a few months.

In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.

At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder.

How many other opinions, as universally prevailing and as much respected, will … pass away?

I don't want to be 45 years old and have been a hot actor when I was 33 and have people going, 'Whatever happened to Fishburne?'

I'm an aging show pony and they trot me out here and there.

The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

When I saw 'My Fair Lady,' I was surprised at how mean and misogynistic Henry was. Maybe that's why it's dropping out of public consciousness.

McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.

Most artists over 40 or 50 don't get played on the radio. It's a young people's game. I was ready for that.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.