Style Quotes

• Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

  

  Jaron Lanier
  • Soul
  • Alone
  • Style

• There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

  

  David Bowie
  • Country
  • Style
  • Philosophy

• It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere. There are always a few students who want me to be tough or harsh, but it's really not my style.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Experience
  • Write
  • Atmosphere

• I understand now the different games and the different approaches that you need to take at different times, with different styles of play.

  

  Ross Barkley
  • Time
  • Style
  • Approach

• I keep things pretty loose. I'm always attracted to the artists that have a, like a really loose, kind of, human style, you know, you can see, you can tell there's, there's a humanity in there.

  

  Noah Van Sciver
  • Style
  • Humanity
  • Attracted

• They [people] mistake fashion for style.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Mistake

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

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Confidence
  • Diversity
  • Expression

• 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

• I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

  

  Elaine de Kooning
  • Work
  • Character
  • Interested

• All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

  

  Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
  • Living
  • Meaning
  • Interested

• It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Style
  • Attitude
  • Openness

• 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

• 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

• My style is edgy but really put together. I'm not the kind of girl to walk out of the house in booty shorts and a crop top and Converse. I don't like that look.

  

  Sofia Richie
  • Style
  • Walk
  • Edgy

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Remember
  • Enjoy
  • Voice

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Chance
  • Pure
  • Succession

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