Style Quotes

• I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Style
  • Photography

• I've written a lot of other books and this book Tears we cannot stop was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to say in the same style that I said it in those other books. I felt compelled to preach.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Different
  • Book
  • Tears

• I did sit in cinemas as a kid looking at English and American movies thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if the characters were like real people?" And the worst thing is films are constantly advertising themselves, drawing attention to their style of things. But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic. But you don't want the audience thinking about the bloody film. You want them to think about what's going on, and believe in it. Be flies on the wall, you know?

  

  Mike Leigh
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Style
  • Spirit

• I love these dudes, but I don't know what they're doing with all that facial hair these days. There's a lot of peach fuzz going on. They called me up to go to a Kanye West concert, and I was like 'hold on I'll call Kanye.' So I called him and they got into the show, and I called Kanye later and said, 'Yo did you see my dudes from Panic! at the show?' and he was like 'Nah they mst not have been dressed like they were from the 1700's'. But I back them. They have their own unique style, which is cool.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Unique

• Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

  

  Chilly Gonzales
  • Genius
  • Equal
  • Complicated

• Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Life
  • Style
  • Path

• Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Different
  • Style

• As a woman, I think my style defines my leadership in that it's a gentler, more compassionate approach. Rather than tell people what's good for them, I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Interest
  • Citizens
  • Approach

• My style is more moi-centric.

  

  Eric Jacobson
  • Style

• We lived in the shadow of our rich relations. Mother was intent on keeping up with the people she was raised with, which was impossible. My father was a physician who wanted to be a rabbi but was weighed down by a great sense of obligation to support his family in style.

  

  Stewart Stern
  • Mother
  • Rich
  • Relations

• When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Think
  • Band
  • Working

• Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Chance
  • Pure
  • Succession

• Fashion is one thing, but style is another.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I've always done the style that I loved, so I didn't mind sending an old pair of jeans down the runway. It's about that style. It's not Hedi Slimane. You know, I'm not all that familiar with his thing-I really don't look. I certainly know who he is.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Style
  • Hedi Slimane

• If I see someone wearing Hilfiger it makes me proud, but then I wonder what I could do to make the style more relevant for them next year?

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Proud
  • Wonder
  • Relevant

• American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Confidence
  • Diversity
  • Expression

• I never wanted to be defined by genre. I always wanted to put all kinds of music together to create a style of my own.

  

  DJ Cassidy
  • Style
  • Create
  • Genre

• Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Music
  • Song
  • Style

• I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reader
  • Enjoying
  • Sentence

• To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Writing
  • Poor
  • Speech

• Every director is different and they all have different styles. I've worked with directors who were very specific and they gave a lot of direction. The one thing about Michael Haneke that I think is interesting is that he really has a reason for everything he's asking you. If you challenge it, he is open for discussion but he has a clear idea of what he wants with reasons why.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Reason

• The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, "I've been down the road, we've been there and done that." That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Voice
  • Songs
  • Declaratory

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