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"Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting."
"There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem."
"Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself."
"New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere."
"Your style is the way you talk in paint."
"Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost."
"I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change."
"Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy."
"Style is all about your individual sense of how you want to present yourself to the world. It's about loving what you've got instead of wishing for what you're not."
"Your personal style should evolve with age. To say you want the same style at 25 as at 45 is a mistake."
"Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life."
"Finding tricks to create flattering body shape is the key to style."
"I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life."
"[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete."
"Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know."
"My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught."
"I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things."
"I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style."
"It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before me. I feel overinformed by different styles and different possibilities."
"I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them."
