“I would describe my style as off the wall. I like stuff that doesn't match. I just like to stand out.” StuffStyleWallStanding OutOff The Wall Author:Kevin Durant
“I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.” PeopleWantedStuffDealsRecordsWrittenStyleOffersSongwritersPackagesHoustonWhitney Author:Lukas Haas
“I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.” ThinkingNeedsLooksDifferentYoungChoicesStuffCreativeEnvironmentStyleHealthyWeakMinoritiesDifferent Styles Author:Peter Gabriel
“I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.” CertainStuffMysteryCenturyStyleCollegeAwful19th CenturyDickensFluidity Author:Josh Lieb
“When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite”s style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.” YearsLooksStuffBoysStyleTenEssenceEightNineSpokesDynamiteDuh Author:Jason Reitman
“I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.” DifferentDoneStuffActingStyleHavensExploringDifferent Styles Author:Mel Gibson
“Different scenes call for different acting styles. The kinds of scenes I like most are the ones where you just bury yourself in there. So I wouldn't say that's the only way to be funny, but that's my favorite way to play stuff, to try to put myself in a situation where that kind of acting is necessary.” WayTryingKindDifferentPlayStuffActingSituationStyleSceneMy Favorite Author:Will Forte
“In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.” TryingArtDifferentSchoolTogetherMovingStuffRoomsStyleHigh SchoolJazzContemporaryMartial ArtsWrestlingFlipMixingWindmillsLunchtime Author:Caity Lotz
“What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations, make the styles: mixing and matching painting methods and ideas.” ArtIdeasStuffInterestStylePaintingMethodVariousCombinationAbstractMixingMatchingFigurative Art Author:Ed Askew
“Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff.” PeopleIfsWritingKindDifferentEnoughFactsSongStuffHeardStyleDeterminationSkinsDespiteGood EnoughThickPersevereNot Good EnoughThick Skin Author:John Legend
“I think we all have our own different styles. [James] LeBron likes to be comfortable - he's going to be more comfortable over everything else. Dwyane [Wade Jr.] likes really stylish stuff. If you bring something questionable he'll try it.” IfsThinkingTryingDifferentStuffStyleComfortableLikesQuestionableWadeStylishDifferent Styles Author:Chris Bosh
“I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.” BigsAbleLastsStuffFansStyleDecadesVideoEditing Author:Frank Darabont
“It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.” BelieveStuffDifficultWorstStyleMereObviousSentencesIdiotContradictionTransparentProcessionGaudyHardingLiterary Style Author:H. L. Mencken
“I used to be the guy who wanted to do everything myself, wanted to write and play everything myself, but the older I've gotten, the more collaborations I've gotten. I really enjoy working with other people to create different styles of music, because I really do listen to everything, and I enjoy every kind of music. I think some of the best stuff comes from working with people who have different perspectives on the same thing.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindDifferentPlayWantedUsedGuyStuffEnjoyStylePerspectiveMusic IsUsed To BeCollaborationDifferent PerspectiveDifferent StylesWorking With Others Author:Piggy D.
“I like a much more Japanese style of blood, where it's red and it almost has a paint kind of quality to it. You can put it on metal, and it has this vividness. Because, normally, what they use in Hollywood is this stuff that looks like strawberry pancake syrup or raspberry pancake syrup.” LooksKindUseStuffQualityBloodStyleRedHollywoodPaintMetalsStrawberriesPancakesSyrupRaspberriesVividness Author:Quentin Tarantino
“My husband and I were in Paris for the weekend and I hated wearing anything that was in style. I really loved '50s dresses, so we started going around Paris and hunting this stuff down. It became like this treasure hunt. From then on, I felt like a pirate every time I left Paris.” LeftFeltStuffStyleHusbandDressesTreasureHatedParisMy HusbandWeekendHuntingHuntsPirateTreasure Hunt Author:Stephanie Seymour
“A lot of the content that goes directly to the internet, or is web-created content, is very hand-held video where you can watch this woman fall off the coffee table, or see a funny little gag, or is interview-style stuff, which is great. I love that. I consume it like crazy. But, this is designed to be reminiscent of what you would see during primetime, and reminiscent of what you would see in a movie theater, on any given weekend, and in that regard, it's brand new.” LittlesHandsFallGivenStuffWatchesCrazyStyleInternetTheaterRegardTablesCoffeeVideoBrandsInterviewsWeekendBrand NewMovie TheaterGags Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say "I'll be back baby" and stuff. It's not my style.” ThinkingActionFilmStuffStyleBabyWeaponsSmartAspectDialogueAction FilmsRetortsOverusedLethal Weapon Author:George Lucas
“I still don't really know what my style is. I like a lot of different kinds of comedy, I like watching it and I like being inventive and original. That's the problem with doing a longer set - you can't do every joke that you have because some stuff contradicts other stuff. Even when you know that the audience knows that you're joking and it's not true, you still can't do a joke about your family dying and then later talk about your Mom. I mean you want to keep some kind of cohesive order going.” KnowsWantKindMeanStillsDifferentProblemOrderStuffAudienceComedyDyingStyleMomJokesOriginalsOur FamilyDifferent KindsYour MomTrue You Author:Bonnie McFarlane
“I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he was the only guitarist and we played well together. We lived in the same place. I would play a certain style and he would kind of dance around what I did, in a sense. I learned from him and also vice-versa. With this band, I think I bounce ideas off everybody. Perhaps on the next album they'll be more collaborative stuff, but for the last 2-3 years, I've been pretty well writing by myself.” ThinkingWritingYearsWellsKindIdeasPlayTogetherLastsUsedCertainNextCausesStuffStyleBandAlbumsVicesVice VersaBounceGuitarist Author:Colin Hay
“There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.” WritingRealBeautifulStuffSoundPrinciplesBreakClearFiveMinutesStyleMusicianMusicalBlowHip HopStudiosHipsHopsStringsArrangementsFive MinutesHornsReally BeautifulFunkLushSampling Author:Mos Def
“My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali's style.” WayWritingFirstsBookStuffStyleDirectCriticsBoxingEssaysMuhammadWriting Style Author:Ishmael Reed
“I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my method of storytelling has led me to this point, at which I want to pare down my style. I think I give the lyrics more thought, and then when I try to perform the lyrics over the track I'll try it over and over again, and eventually the lyrics will sink into the track by the way I project them.” ThinkingWayWantGivingTryingUsedStuffStyleProjectsMethodTrackHip HopRapStorytellingTraditionalHipsHopsVocal Author:Galcher Lustwerk
“I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did.” IfsHardBigsHappensStuffStylePeriodsDrugGoing OutPotheads Author:Clive James
“Even though there's stuff that I really like that is just a retro sort of style or whatever, I feel like what I'm most excited by is new mixes of things.” FeelsStuffStyleExcitedRetro Author:Panda Bear
“I think somebody like Wes [Anderson] has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I'm just in Hawaii and Malibu; it's just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff.” ThinkingKindLittlesGuyStuffBitsStyleTypeLittle BitOriginalsVery GoodShirtsExposedHawaiiT ShirtSurfingGood SenseMalibuValentino Author:Owen Wilson
“I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where as soon as the listener tunes in, they say "That's CoJo, that's Cody right there." That being said, it is a little different. There's Americana, there's Bluegrass, there's some rock, there's some really George Jones-style stuff on it, slow-style Ray Price country elements, there's some modern country, a little of this and a little of that. We tried to push a lot for show versatility, because I grew up with a lot of versatility in my music.” FeelsLittlesSaidDifferentCountryShowsWantedSongStuffRecordsModernRocksStyleGrewElementsGrew UpGenreTunesRaysListenersBluegrassVersatilityAmericanaGeorge Jones Author:Cody Johnson
“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
“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
“We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam to [Iron] Maiden and stuff but we were writing songs and it was this metal, loud style and we'd constantly get knocks on our door, because the rehearsal rooms were right next door to each other, and these jazz guys would be like, "Can you guys turn it down a little?"” KnowsWritingLittlesPlayDreamWould BeUsedGuySongTurnsNextStuffRoomsDoorsStyleRootsTheaterJazzLoudIronMetalsRehearsalJamWriting SongsMaidensIron MaidenCover SongsDream Theater Author:John Petrucci
“Instead of buying a guitar for $2,000 or $2,500 - I'm not sure how much these are going for - but it's maybe $300 or something like that. It's more for beginners and stuff like that. Obviously it's not hitting the pros. And you can't get the Piezo pickup and the color-changing paint and the inlays and all the fancy things that my signature guitars offer, but you can get the general feel of the guitar - and the body style. It's cool.” FeelsBodyStuffStyleColorOffersPaintGuitarNot SureFancyBuyingHittingSignaturesBeginnersPickupsFancy Things Author:John Petrucci