Creativity Quote by Paul Simon

Paul Simon’s “I don’t like fashion. It’s very heartless” lands like a quiet diss in a loud room: not a rant, not a manifesto, just a cool refusal to pretend the glitter has a pulse. Coming from a musician whose brand has long been craft over spectacle, it reads less as anti-style than anti-churn. “Fashion” here isn’t clothes; it’s the whole apparatus of trend, the algorithmic push to refresh yourself before anyone’s even finished looking. Calling it “heartless” turns a supposedly playful industry into an emotional economy that runs on indifference: you’re only as valuable as your newest iteration.

The line works because Simon uses a moral word where you expect an aesthetic one. He doesn’t say fashion is shallow, silly, or vain. He says it lacks heart, implying a deficit of care, continuity, and human regard. That’s a songwriter’s critique: trends don’t build relationships, they replace them. Taste becomes speed. Identity becomes inventory.

It also nudges at the music business, where “fashion” is the unspoken executive note: sound younger, look current, chase the moment. Simon’s career, especially as he aged into elder-statesman status, is basically a long argument for the opposite rhythm: songs that deepen rather than spike, influences absorbed rather than worn. The sting is that fashion depends on your attention while training you not to give any.