Afrika Bambaataa Quotes

I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

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• I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Style
  • Now
  • Doctor

• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Experience
  • Style
  • Boy

• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Style

• If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Mom
  • Talent

• I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Mars

• I like women with style to wear my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Women
  • Style
  • Shoes

• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Style
  • Speak
  • Jazz

• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Performance

• When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Style

• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Way
  • Style
  • Individual

• My personal style is ever changing.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Style
  • Personal
  • Changing

• I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Power
  • Style

• I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Style
  • Romantic
  • Clothes

• A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Good
  • Style
  • Caring

• For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • Style

• Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

  

  Frank Rich
  • School
  • History
  • High

• I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

  

  Joan Smalls

• Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.

  

  Paul Horn
  • Pretty
  • Play
  • Flute

• I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Style
  • Moon