We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
Fashions are induced epidemics.
I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
Style is an attitude; a trend is just another thing to follow.
Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.
And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.
Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap or disco or some other musical phase, and then suddenly, that'll be the thing to do.
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.
You know how Hollywood is: They just follow suit.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.
When fashion sweeps in, artists follow suit. I think this is the malady of contemporary art.
I can't do something just because it's popular.
Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.
Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.
No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.
As long as you're ahead of a trend, I think you're going to be fine. You really have to have a multitasking mind that can switch from one thing to the other easily without too much focus on, 'Oh, I'm going to Instagram my life.'
Following a trend too closely is a risky thing. If not properly executed, you could easily end up looking uncomfortable, over-styled, and downright foolish.
There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.
I've always been like a guinea pig when it comes to health trends.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
