Quotes About Icon

Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies

In reality, the only true model of a successful woman was the Divine Sarah.

I remember wearing old long johns, my dad's silk paisley dressing gown, chopped off at the waist, and lots of crucifixes - trying to look like Madonna. But I wasn't breaking any moulds, I was just trying to follow somebody else.

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.

Michael Jackson is the most awesome person who ever walked onstage. He was just incredible.

A guy like James Brown has walked the walk, talked the talk. I can't disrespect James Brown in any kind of way. In my household, the adults tell you where to get off at.

Venus is a walking, living, breathing legend.

In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

It must be tiring being Bob Dylan for the past 50 years. People act like he's not even human, which must be hard work. Every room he walks into just goes quiet.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

I knew him, but never felt that I got really close to Saint Laurent. But who really did? Betty Catroux, maybe.

When they ask who is your biggest influence, I always say Pharrell: whether it is music or fashion, I'm a big fan.

I think there's always been interest in Bob Marley.

That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan.

Bowie's my hero.

The Rock is somebody that every kid in my era grew up watching. Legend. His success is not only in wrestling but what he's done after it has been spectacular.

My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.

I always think about how Chaka Khan used to take suede, all these classic fabrics, and then make them very movable. She's my everything!

In the 1940s, boxing was a mainstream sport and deeply ingrained the fabric of Harlem. Joe Louis ruled the world, but the local icon was Sugar Ray Robinson.

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.

I don't think I am an icon. My team works hard on my look; I just wear what they suggest.

I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.