Quotes About Reinvention

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs.

It's something I've recognized in the careers of those people who have been inspiring to me over the years - Neil Young, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, and Prince. These are all people who constantly redefined themselves, and had to deal with the difficulty of trying to take their audience with them when they did that.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

Whenever people talk about Don and I recording again, which almost everybody usually mentions, I always say 'Well, there's plenty of things that you haven't heard! Plenty of things out there to discover!'

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

We were in recycling before recycling was cool.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

In some cases, if you are not happy with a certain scenario, you have to give it a makeover, you know?

Being the new Eddy Merckx is not something I want to hear. I want to be somebody new.

Anil Kapoor is a star. He reinvented the characterisation of heroism.

I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

Nelly Furtado has the right idea in reinventing herself.

'Make more happen' highlights how Staples is reinventing itself to provide every product businesses need to succeed.

Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon, this traditional model will become utterly obsolete, and the only way for humans to stay in the game will be to keep learning throughout their lives and to reinvent themselves repeatedly.

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

The WWE definitely needs to reinvent itself if it wants to survive.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist