The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race
I'm one of those people who doesn't want to miss out on anything.
I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you.
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.
The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.
I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.
I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
Styles move too fast to be partial to anything. If it's funk, that's enough for me. I don't care how fast or slow it is. I got my grandkids up front rapping and doing the new thing. They're teaching each other, bringing us up to date.
My own fear, if I have one myself, is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of, something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.
Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing and keep learning so that you are constantly challenging yourself, adding a few new songs to your program every chance you get. If you don't, the world will pass you by.
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
For too long we have let history outrun our government’s ability to keep up with it.
If you try to hold onto the old trends, then you'll look old.
Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.
We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.
If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.
If it works, it's obsolete.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
