Quotes About Timeless

I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

I've always dug Audrey Hepburn. I think she's one of the classic beauties.

My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others.

I like to do things that are classic.

I love Cartier. They are the classic French jeweller.

I think my style is probably more of a classic look.

I'm really pretty classic.

I love Christy Turlington in the '80s and '90s. Classic.

It doesn't matter how fashion or politics changes; you'll never change a classic song.

Classic comedy is classic comedy, and it will go on for years.

My songs are classics.

The mullet has made a comeback, of sorts, and it looks great on young people. But I think if I was walking round with a mullet 25 years later I'd just look like a bloke who's stuck in the 80s.

My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers.

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.

I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Bob Dylan is someone that - I don't care how long into the future it is - somebody will still play Bob Dylan. He will always survive.

The one amazing thing about 'Jack' is that I did it in 2001, you know, and it still survived. There's something about it that's connected with people.