Style Quotes

I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me, in the elegant Lines you enclosed; and however undeserving I may be of such encomium and panegyrick, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof of your great poetical Talents. In honour of which, and as a tribute justly due to you, I would have published the Poem, had I not been apprehensive, that, while I only meant to give the World this new instance of your genius, I might have incurred the imputation of Vanity. This and nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the public Prints.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

I am committed to ensuring that the president of a country like ours must not live in a style which is totally different from that of the masses of the people who put him in power.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it.

But on this record, I said, 'Instead of a magnum opus, what about more like a polaroid?

I love Vetements, but I tend not to wear on stage 'cause the sleeves are too long and I can't play the guitar.

I wear a lot of Saint Laurent because it's so classic rock star.

He really had everything a rock & roll star should have - style, presence; he didn't have to force anything. He'd just make an entrance and the whole place would be on fire. He was living out everything I wanted to be.

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

Around 1988 I started to 'dread' my hair; because it's curly, it would go into dreads naturally if I stopped combing it. But the dreads went down only one side, so I had to have extensions put in.

I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.

If I'm in a bad mood, or if I'm uncomfortable, it's probably what I'm wearing that's making me feel that way.

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.