“I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.” IfsThinkingWantEndsPoliticalUsedBitsProcessCommonStyleChestsGoing OutUnhealthyReligion And Politics Author:Tony Blair
“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's times I've been quite nervous doing session work, such as when I'm asked to play the violin in a 'country and western' style or a 'gypsy' style. I'm not very good at that sort of playing at all. I think it's important as a session musician to have your own voice.” ThinkingImportantCountryPlayVoiceStyleMusicianWesternVery GoodNervousSessionViolinGypsy Author:Ric Sanders
“I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.” PeopleThinkingSometimesSongPlayerWrittenStyleGuitarSingersSongwritersSinger SongwritersGuitar PlayerBadges Author:Bert Jansch
“I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.” ThinkingBigsEffortStyleCollegeBandUniversityToo ShortFunkGroundbreaking Author:E-40
“I'm very much into collaboration. I think that collaboration is the road to making something great. I respect artists that are more autocrats and are in control of their own projects, but it's not really my style. I've always had that partnership.” ThinkingArtistStyleProjectsCollaborationPartnership Author:Tamaryn
“I would describe my style for those who haven't listened to my music as definitely..up-tempo. I try to have something nice, something people could dance to. It's kind of hard though to describe my sound in one record because I think when I approach music I try to do something different every day. Do a different vibe.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindDifferentHardSoundRecordsNiceStyleHavensApproachTempo Author:Kid Ink
“I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux” ThinkingCountrySidesCrazyStyleMusic IsBrandsRoughRodeoHaggardWild Side Author:Cody Johnson
“With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.” ThinkingStyleMaterialsCompromiseAgendas Author:Jonny Lang
“I think there's always room for people to hear different styles of music, especially when it comes from the heart.” PeopleThinkingHeartDifferentRoomsStyleDifferent Styles Author:Pras Michel
“I think Westlife is very unique: we have a certain sound; we do our thing our way, and we don't try to change too much. I think that's what the fans love about us. We keep giving the fans what they want every year. The style of music never really changes too much.” ThinkingWayWantGivingTryingYearsCertainSoundToo MuchFansStyleUniqueWestlife Author:Shane Filan
“I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.” ThinkingNeedsSelfBlackWhiteDealsRaceComedyStyleMaterialsRacismPacksTopicsVersusRelatableCatalystSeparatingSelf DeprecatingSelf Deprecating Humor Author:Kevin Hart
“I believe that if you think about what style means, you won't become a fashion victim.” IfsThinkingBelieveMeanI BelieveFashionStyleVictim Author:John Varvatos
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingTermStyleListeningEasierGuitarTechniqueDevelopingEvolveSongwritersListening To Music Author:Ian Anderson
“The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.” ThinkingGuyFashionStyleStartingDepartmentNba Author:Cam Newton
“My style is so tightly tied in with our songs that I don't think you could even ask me to quit Radiohead and play guitar for another band. I don't think I could do it. It would probably reveal me to be the bluffer that I believe I am. That's how it feels. I wouldn't have the confidence to do anything but this.” ThinkingFeelsBelievePlaySongAsksI BelieveStyleBandGuitarQuittingAsk MeTiedRadiohead Author:Jonny Greenwood
“I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.” ThinkingSchoolStyleDevelopingGrades Author:Victoria Justice
“Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.” ThinkingWantWritingTryingStyleDiscovery Author:Lynne Tillman
“I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."” ThinkingUseStyleAmberOpaqueNot Pretty 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 don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from Cornwall and choose to paint people in what they considered to be an urban style instead of Cornish landscapes. I've never agreed with them. It's bullshit.” PeopleThinkingSaidArtistStylePaintLandscapeBullshitUrbanRebelliousCornwall Author:Danny Fox
“I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness.” ThinkingTryingKindPiecesInfluenceStyleGreatnessInspired Author:Paul Weller
“Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.” PeopleThinkingWaySometimesStyleMainstream Author:Neige
“I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.” ThinkingLooksMadeStyleLike YouBenefitsMade ItFringe Author:Julian Schnabel
“I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov, Philip Larkin, and the British poets who were imported through that important anthology put together by Alvarez - and those would include Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes. And I think these poets gave me assurance that there were other ways to write besides the rather involuted style of high modernism whose high priests were Pound, Eliot and Stevens, and Crane perhaps.” ThinkingWayWritingImportantTogetherMovingReadingStylePoetBritishPoundsPriestsAssuranceModernismAnthologyPhilipMoving AwayEliotHartCranes Author:Billy Collins
“You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.” IfsThinkingMenWayDoeSometimesPhilosophyAnimalStyleEgo Author:Zack Snyder
“I think each of my books attempts to create its own voice so I'm not even sure I have a signature style, other than certain descriptive tendencies, an interest in the sound of language. Maybe an immersion in place.” ThinkingBookCertainLanguageSoundVoiceInterestStyleTendenciesSignaturesImmersion Author:Paul Lisicky
“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 describe me sound as international: reggae, pop, rap, R&B all in one. I think I have my own style. I can't really even describe it. People say, "What type of genre is your music?" It's Sean Kingston genre. I have my own genre. No disrespect to no artist or dudes out there. I feel like I am my own person. I am doing my own thing.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsI CanArtistSoundMy OwnStyleTypeInternationalPopsRapGenreDisrespectReggaeSeanGenre IsMy Own StyleDescribe Me Author:Sean Kingston
“In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the record. Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music.” ThinkingWayDifferentSometimesShowsFunRecordsSeeingStylePerformancesFolksBedroomListening To MusicLive PerformanceDuets Author:Zooey Deschanel
“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
“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
“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 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
“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 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
“For me I look at a group like Queen or AC/DC or the Beastie Boys. There was melody within what they did. There was a certain style with what they did. I think it is coming back.” ThinkingLooksCertainBoysGroupsStyleQueensMelodyComing Back Author:Michael Buble
“My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.” PeopleThinkingWritingStyleDetails Author:Craig Finn
“There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.” IfsThinkingCan DoStyleMachinesExciting Author:Matt Tong
“For me, there's always an early-'70s sense. There's always a sprinkle of it - if I do it exactly like that, sometimes it becomes too costume-y or too thought out. But the influences are there, without a doubt, always, because to me, that was the part that I also felt was the most defining of my own personality and my own style, and I also think that it's timeless. You never look wrong.” IfsThinkingLooksSometimesFeltMy OwnDoubtInfluenceStylePersonalityTimelessCostumesDefiningSprinklesMy Own StyleMy Own Personality Author:Paul Weller
“If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.” IfsThinkingWantTryingLooksIndividualWalksStreetsStyleExcellentUniformsIndividual Style Author:Ian Astbury
“My mom told me I could have sheets, towels, and a few pillows, but I wanted leopard drapes, carpeting, and a comforter, too. I think maybe my obsession had something to do with my grandmother - she told me the best print to buy is leopard because it always stays in style.” ThinkingWantedStyleMomMy MomObsessionGrandmotherPrintSheetsMy GrandmotherPillowTowelsLeopardsComforterDrapes Author:Kim Kardashian
“I think my style is classic - I like wearing jeans and a white button-up shirt.” ThinkingWhiteStyleShirtsClassicButtonsJeansButton Ups Author:Kim Kardashian
“I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.” ThinkingKindMeanI CanSometimesShowsBigsComedyStyleDramaAlliesClosestAlly Mcbeal Author:Paul Feig
“I think people are attracted to The Huffington Post's blend of up-to-the-second news and thoughtful opinion, delivered with an attitude. Plus, I think they enjoy that we cover so many different things - from politics and entertainment to style and satire. There is always something interesting to read and think about - and even to laugh at.” PeopleThinkingDifferentEnjoyInterestingAttitudeOpinionLaughingStyleNewsEntertainmentPostsThoughtfulDifferent ThingsSatirePlusSomething Interesting Author:Arianna Huffington
“I think it's good to have different styles, though. I think it's good to have a lucha on a show, some Japanese flavor, I think MMA is a good thing, a little bit of the hardcore and the blood and guts is good. That is what makes a show for me.” ThinkingLittlesDifferentShowsBitsBloodStyleLittle BitGood ThingsGutsMmaFlavorHardcoreDifferent Styles Author:CM Punk
“I think Mixed Martial Arts is going to be a huge thing coming up in pro wrestling, and I like to think of myself as one of the first guys to try and implement that into my style.” ThinkingTryingFirstsArtGuyStyleHugeArt IsMartial ArtsWrestlingPro WrestlingMixed Martial Arts Author:CM Punk
“And when you are operating within your style, which is your world, which you operate in, then it also would make sense to you. Now, whether it makes sense to anybody outside is besides the point really. You just do it and then you find that other people kind of begin to relate to it and allow themselves to get into your way of thinking about things.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayKindStyleRelateMake SenseWay Of ThinkingJust Do It Author:Robert Barry
“If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.” IfsThinkingWayCertainOpportunityToo MuchStyleAriseLocked Author:Robert Barry
“[The consumer] shown new styles in the moment, but she's not going to get them for another six months - and I think that's very confusing for her. She feels she's seen it all by the time it comes around. She's also a little bored. She's really into [snaps her fingers], "Wear-now-buy-now."” ThinkingFeelsLittlesMomentsStyleMonthsSixFingersConsumersBoredConfusingSix MonthsSnaps Author:Donna Karan