Marc Newson Quotes

I like vintage a lot.

I'm an old-timey gal.

The idea of creating a quote-unquote 'retro' world isn't all that appealing to me by itself.

I'm old-school.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

That whole Wavy Spice, '90s thing, it wasn't who I was or what I saw myself doing in the future.

Some people say I make hip-hop. Others see me as doing EDM. Some people might look at me as a trap artist, but I'm not really stuck to any of those.

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

I listen to the Mars Volta and Fiona Apple every day. I feel if you do write music, you write what you listen to, and you couldn't possibly write in another genre. So those are the two that I usually use.

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.