Words matter. These are the best Old Stuff Quotes from famous people such as Lou Reed, Christopher Daniels, Nate Berkus, Eric Burdon, Amy Winehouse, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
I mean, I’m twenty years in the business, I still watch tapes. I still watch matches on Youtube. I’m trying to learn. I watch my old stuff to see what I used to do that worked, that didn’t work. You never stop learning.
I tend not to wear ties very often. I’m usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, ’cause people want to hear the old stuff. It’s like cooking, you know? You can’t put too many peppers into the eggs… otherwise it’s going to be distasteful.
I don’t listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It’s all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You’d have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldn’t sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
Repetitiveness is one of the things that’s most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they’re presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.
I always feel as though I’ve made a significant improvement after every training session. It’s never S-O-S, same old stuff. It’s always something new.
I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio’s more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.
If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you’re not really a complete musician, you’re a performer.
I still love listening to the old stuff – Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, you know. I stick to the old school stuff, but I love Mark Ronson. I love John Legend.
When people come to see me, they’ll see what they know me for. Hits from the past, but I always mix in a little something new. New stuff. Old stuff. It creates a great show. There’s a lot of crowd participation. A lot of interaction and energy. That’s what I do best.
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.
Comedians are like pop bands. When you’re young, you have ruddy principles and don’t do old stuff because you don’t want to take away the purity of youth. But then as you get older, you look at The Rolling Stones and see what fun they have.
I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
I listen to everything from Lady Gaga to Lady Antebellum. I’ve got Frank Sinatra. I’ve got old stuff, new stuff. Iggy Azalea. I’ve got everything.
In Paris in the late ’40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff.
I think it’s important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren’t doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.
I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
I am a classical music lover – not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.
I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff – we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!
You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.
I don’t listen to my old stuff very often at all.
It’s hard to say a favorite song of my father’s. I listen to all his stuff – a lot of the old stuff before the ’70s.
We’re not ashamed of the old stuff, but when you look back at the posters it does make you think: ‘My God, six men and one woman.’ Weirdly we didn’t say ‘that’s wrong’ and no one else did, either. It’s been a really quick shift in the landscape of telly, which is brilliant.
I don’t live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don’t think anyone would like it.
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
I have a habit of collecting all my old stuff. I still have all my old clothes and old cars, but my wife spends all my money.
I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.
I try not to look at my old stuff or my new stuff, really. I’m not a fan.
