- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Style Quotes
Style is what's left after everything else settles.
Several of these track style as something that develops with experience, whether in a performer's technique or a scientist's approach to their own work. For a similar note on self-presentation, see our Look quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
- Heat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now everybody has been doing the national anthem in their own style, but in 1968 I was the one that took the heat. It cut my career for quite a while.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the story of the guy coming to Nashville and then kind of getting set down and told, 'This is how the town works,' which, I've totally been there. But the coolest thing about 'Out of Style' is it's a song within a song.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've tried to do every album in a different style, which is why I tend to leave a fair bit of time between each one.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020