Classic Influence Quotes

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Destiny's Child's harmonies remind me of Earth, Wind & Fire.

There's a sort of eternal, indefinable 20th century quality to 'BTAS.' We never really pegged the decade, but it's anytime in the 20th century, so I often harkened back to things from the '40s or '50s.

I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!

I grew up listening to a lot of classic country, and I think that shows in my songwriting.

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.

I try to make things that are fresh and different, even if they are inspired by classic things.

I've always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the 'The Oresteia,' and that stayed with me, and slowly this idea of using some of those old legends and plays to tell a new story about modern urban life began to form.

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

I would much rather hear a song that's written from a fresh perspective, using ideas that have existed in rock & roll for 50 years, than something that is incredibly abrasive to my ears but is new.

I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.

I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.