Quotes About Inspiration

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and then I was very much influenced by Stravinsky and Shostakovich in the 1950s. But I was starting to develop my own style.

I've followed Mysskin sir's work, and I really like his style of filmmaking.

I dreamed of being like Kaka, and Brazil was the home of that creative style, which the Brazilians call ginga.

Reluctant as I am to regard myself as a style icon, I would love to think I could inspire older women to make the most of themselves.

Prince played a big influence on my style.

My style of cooking is definitely inspired by my mum. She called herself a peasant cook. Shed make recipes up from whatever was in the larder.

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

I do think my style is pretty French.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

I read Nabakov for style, Mary Karr for heart and resonance of where I come from. She's from the same part of the world that I'm from. Cormac McCarthy and Hemingway, to read the masters.

A lot of people don't know this, but I started out as a blues-based player, and then, when I realized after playing 18 hours a day that there's more than five notes per scale, that's when my stuff became what it was. I started listening to violinists and flautists, and that's how my style evolved.

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

My style icon actually is my three sisters. I love the way they dress and the way they put things together. I definitely get most of my style from them.

My dad is French and he's my number one style icon.

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?

I find inspiration in what artists and regular people on the street wear, but I'm also very influenced by what I like to wear since I style myself.

I'm not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.

You can't just copy someone. There are so many different styles that you can just kind of pick and choose whatever it is you'd like to do.

Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid.

I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?

I'm a real big Marilyn Manson fan. I get a lot of my styles from him. Not even musically - living-wise, too. Marilyn Manson definitely shows me you shouldn't care what nobody say. I watched a bunch of his interviews, and he's not just an artist; he's one of the most intelligent people I ever saw in my life.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.