“For me, style is something that I've always loved. It's more than just, "Oh I make this type of music, so I should dress this type of way." But it's very important. On the other hand, if I was on stage in a hoodie and some baggy jeans, it wouldn't give off the same feeling. People appreciate the music, but people want to see the whole visual thing.” PeopleIfsWayWantGivingShouldImportantWholeFeelingsHandsStageStyleTypeAppreciateDressesVisualsJeans Author:Leon Bridges
“I'm interested in - in that his power, if that is the word, is such that he has actually been able to be in a way a one-man wrecking crew in the area of deportment and how one proceeds politically on the stump. Marco Rubio is - is attempting, as you know, to a - to give [Donald] Trump a fight in Trump's own style. I'm not sure how that works, but - but certainly the indices are good.” IfsKnowsMenWayGivingAbleFightingStyleTrumpAreasNot SureOne ManCrewAttemptingMarcosStumps Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think it's different in fashion, because even if I would be an outsider, I would still be in the middle of the whole world of contemporary fashion. But it's interesting to think what outsider fashion could be. Does it mean to be completely disconnected from the regular system or just disconnected style-wise?” IfsThinkingWorldMeanDoeStillsDifferentWholeWould BeInterestingWiseMiddleFashionStyleWhole WorldContemporaryOutsidersDisconnected Author:Raf Simons
“That's like the really fun, exciting thing about wrestling. There's no such thing as perfecting this art. You're constantly growing and you're constantly progressing and changing up you're style and gauging an audience to make sure that audience is enjoying what you're doing.” ArtFunEnjoyAudienceGrowingProgressStyleExcitingWrestlingExciting Things Author:Adam Cole
“One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me.” WritingCountryReasonStoriesWantedCarStyleSeriousExerciseReason WhyLatinLatin AmericaLatin AmericanComplete Freedom Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.” WorldCharacterEasyAbilityPathInfluenceStyleFamiliarUpbringingLife PathSimulateAbility To Adapt Author:Aeriel Miranda
“It's easy to get into habitual ways of drawing things and I'm as much guilty of this as anyone else - after all, it's part of what makes a recognisable personal style. But I always try and think a lot about each image beforehand, try and envisage the best way of approaching it.” ThinkingWayTryingEasyStyleDrawingBest WayGuiltyHabitualEasy To GetPersonal Style Author:Bryan Talbot
“A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.” KindBigsWantedStyleEmotionalDocumentariesCinematicSlice Of Life Author:Dan Trachtenberg
“If the intuition-mongering were abandoned, would that be the end of philosophy? It would be the end of a certain style of philosophy - a style that has cut philosophy off, not only from the humanities but from every other branch of inquiry and culture.” IfsEndsPhilosophyWould BeCertainHumanityCultureCuttingStyleIntuitionBranchesAbandonedInquiry Author:Philip Kitcher
“In my view, all students should be given an initial opportunity to pursue the science track as far as it goes. But for those who quickly decide that track isn't for them, a different style of teaching is in order.” ShouldDifferentOrderOpportunityGivenViewsTeachingStyleStudentsTrackPursueInitialsDifferent Styles Author:Philip Kitcher
“I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan. That's my reality. I don't like reality TV. I like it like that.” BigsRealityFansStyleTvsHugeDocumentariesReality Tv Author:Phil Morris
“I think my style is very eclectic, because I love so many different things. And, that's true, too, in almost every aspect of my life. I can go from really edgy to tailored and professional, and I just love to change things up.” ThinkingI CanDifferentStyleAspectDifferent ThingsEdgyEclecticTailored Author:Evangeline Lilly
“I'm an actor/singer who moves well... sometimes. I'm actually a great mover but not every style fits my body and a dance call back is my worst nightmare.” WellsSometimesBodyMovingActorsWorstStyleFitSingersNightmareWorst Nightmares Author:Erica Schroeder
“So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language, style, content, and often its author's gender. To publish it properly, in a way that makes it clear that this is art, not anthropology. To spotlight the importance of translation in making cultures less dully homogenous.” WayWritingArtCultureLanguageClearStyleImportanceOriginalsAimPressesGenderPublishMixturesTranslationsAnthropologySpotlightIntersections Author:Deborah Smith
“I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.” WritingTryingHas BeensNovelStyleCinematic Author:Nicholas Royle
“I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're always a surprise to me.” MinutesStyleBasketballSurprise Author:Travis Morrison
“I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.” My OwnStyleSingingMy Own Style Author:Yoshi Wada
“I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s.” StyleBuildingInstrumentsScottishOld MusicBagpipes Author:Yoshi Wada
“Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.” KnowsWritingSaidImportantRealUsedEnergySoundStyleTrumpetsReal Ones Author:Anna Meredith
“A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of a Ramones song if their life depended on it because they didn't have the strength or ability to do it. But all I did was practice that, and the style that I eventually fell into is more focused than people would actually imagine.” PeopleIfsPlaySchoolSongThreeHeavenAbilityPracticeImagineStyleGuitarFocusedSoloChordsRamonesStairwaysGuitar SolosStairway To Heaven Author:Kevin Shields
“I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.” StyleCelebrateAccomplishmentMilestone Author:John Darnielle
“I'm always trying to push myself into unfamiliar places with the music, sometimes without success, I have to admit. But I'd rather be there than relying on a style that people recognize and want to follow.” PeopleWantTryingSometimesStyleAlways TryingUnfamiliar Author:Michael Gira
“Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.” WantedYoungGirlFashionStyleThemeValleysIconsInfamousFashion IconValley Girl Author:Bethany Cosentino
“Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.” GivingTryingAdviceStyleBeing YourselfCopiesTrendsJust Be YourselfPersonal Style Author:Bethany Cosentino
“I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.” KnowsFeelsWritingStrongKnow HowCreativeStyleElementsNonfictionFeel BetterBetter OffTravel WritingCreative Nonfiction Author:John Gimlette
“I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.” DifferentEyeArtistPleasureFiveStylePaintingSixPopsPostsDifferent Styles Author:Erro
“Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.” I CanStyleAssumingOver ItLooking BackFoldsOrigamiWhiplash Author:Feist
“I tend to gravitate away from the more trendy Ibiza style of dance music. It's not me.” StyleDance MusicTrendyIbiza Author:DJ Shadow
“I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.” IfsThinkingWayTogetherSoundInterestingStyleFamiliarJust OneNew Ways Author:Britta Phillips
“You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.” KnowsStyleConfusionPunk Author:Mike Watt
“I'm not really picky. Just as long as it's not the harder style of rap - anything that's about being on the come-up or your wealth doesn't go that well with marimbas.” WellsLongWealthStyleHarderCome UpRapPicky Author:Mike Tucker
“I didn't want to make a record that's just drones or completely experimental. A lot of the time bands that make this psychedelic style of music are just a bunch of dudes hanging out together and jamming.” WantTogetherRecordsStyleBandBunchHanging OutPsychedelicDrones Author:Tamaryn
“I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice and the lyrics talk for themselves. I still want to write the perfect song and sing it in the most honest, undressed way. But I feel like I have to gather more experiences and more layers in my voice. I have to live more to be able to tell this tale. So I'm saving my folk record. I have a feeling nobody will understand it.” WayWantFeelsWritingHeartStillsFeelingsAbleSongVoicePerfectRecordsHonestStyleMy HeartFolksAlbumsTalesStorytellingSavingLayers Author:Lykke Li
“I think it's important to be aware of different people's styles and how you adapt or change or steal their ideas.” PeopleThinkingImportantIdeasDifferentStyleStealingDifferent Peoples Author:Chris Hemsworth
“I'm a big shoe guy, too. I have far too many pairs. Whenever there's a new style out, I'll text my stylist: 'Can we get a pair of those?'” BigsGuyStyleShoesPairsStylistBig Shoes Author:Joe Jonas
“People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!” PeopleTryingStuffStyleSceneAppreciateMachinesPoliceMtvPukeOld StuffPantera Author:Mat McNerney
“I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.” ThinkingKnowsWellsCharacterStyleBandIsolated Author:Mat McNerney
“Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.” PeopleDifferentSometimesHappensSpiritBitsBlackChurchWhiteStyleAveragePreachingAll BlackBlack Church Author:Michael Emerson
“Call-and-response style, yes, exactly. So whenever different groups get together then there has to be this long period of negotiation. How will we worship? What's acceptable? What's not? If I want to say "Amen" can I?” IfsWantLongDifferentTogetherGroupsStylePeriodsWorshipResponseAcceptableNegotiationGet TogetherAmen Author:Michael Emerson
“It's one of the things we find in these congregations is that they are much more likely to be sort of up-beat worship styles, more likely that people in these congregations say "Amen," maybe get up and dance some, tend to be a little bit more lively than a typical white service would be, but not as lively as a typical black service would be.” PeopleLittlesWould BeBitsBlackWhiteStyleWorshipLittle BitBeatsGet UpTypicalLivelyAmenCongregation Author:Michael Emerson
“What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing to give up whatever they may have come with. So it's still quite a stretch for African Americans, yeah.” GivingMayStillsSometimesHappensWhiteStyleWillingGiving UpWorshipYeahFolksAfrican AmericanCongregation Author:Michael Emerson
“Absolutely, although every congregation will say, you know, every worship leader will say it's vital. It's very important, but again these are, you know, these are different cultural styles.” KnowsImportantDifferentLeaderStyleWorshipCongregation Author:Michael Emerson
“Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda do it. I mean, there's a combination of, like you're saying, that kind of lyrics about commitment or vaguely relationship lyrics mixed with jokey 90s Beck-style non-sequiturs and stuff.” KnowsKindMeanDifferentFeelingsSongStuffStyleLike YouCommitmentCombinationGenesis Author:Stephen Malkmus
“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.” KnowsDoneSongStuffVoiceStyleHappeningsVulnerableDown The Road Author:Stephen Malkmus
“You find the most in not any particular denomination specifically. It's the style of worship. So if we have what we call a charismatic worship style, that means upbeat music and a more lively style of preaching usually, people are allowed to clap, say "Amen," whether they're mainline Protestant, conservative Protestant, and Catholics, whatever, they're much more likely to be integrated.” PeopleIfsMeanStyleParticularWorshipCatholicConservativePreachingLivelyIntegratedProtestantsAmenCharismaticDenominationsUpbeat Author:Michael Emerson
“I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.” WritingDifferentPlayUsedStyleGuitarDifferent Styles Author:Rokia Traore
“I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.” PeopleUnderstandingInfluenceStyleFindingsEleganceUnderstanding Why Author:Volker Bertelmann
“I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.” WantedStyleAlbumsObscure1960sPsychedelic Author:Kristoffer Rygg
“People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.” PeopleShouldDifferentArtistRealizingCommunityCreativeStyleInteractionListening To MusicJust ListenDifferent Styles Author:Kristoffer Rygg
“Personally, I love the cookie monster grunts. I like how they alienate listeners. We sound the way we sound. We're individuals. We don't all like the same music. Everybody contributes their own influences, style, and history.” WayIndividualSoundInfluenceStyleMonstersListenersCookiesGrunt Author:David Pajo