Quotes About Style

I tend to gravitate away from the more trendy Ibiza style of dance music. It's not me.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

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.

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

I've always been into dressing and being stylish because I feel like that's where I gained a lot of my confidence and swag as a rapper, so fashion goes hand-in-hand with music to me.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.

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.

I am a huge comic book fan, and I love everything vintage: cars, movies, music, art, and style - especially the 1950s style.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.

For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

The thing that I realize about fashion now, fashion and music, now versus back then is that you had to have fresh records and be fresh.