Old Stuff Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Amy Winehouse

  Song, White, Stories

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• I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Stuff, Entertainment

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• In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

  Joichi Ito

  Discovery, People, Waiting

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• 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!

  Jamie Foxx

  Thinking, Artist, Track

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• 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.

  William Feather

  Men, Years, Six

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• One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

  Lou Reed

  Stuff

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• To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

  Bill Budge

  Looks, Stuff, Honest

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• I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, Long, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• 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.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Disappointment, Writing, Stuff

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• 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.

  Joe Dante

  People, Challenges, Trying

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• 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.

  Nate Berkus

  Leather Jackets, Jeans, Ties

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• If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

  Henri Pirenne

  Love Life, Eye, Stuff

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• If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

  Terry Pratchett

  Moving, Reading, Writing

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• I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

  Mark Hoppus

  Missing, Records, Stuff

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• I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Creating, Stuff

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• I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

  Eberhard Weber

  Music, Stuff, Lovers

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• 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.

  Gary Allan

  Country, Cutting, Musical

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• We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.

  Fady Joudah

  Fall, Quota, Machines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff - I'm better at seeing long lines in other people's music than in my own.

  Bent Saether

  Long, People, Lines

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out. I wanted to draw a timeline between my old stuff and my new stuff and bridge it to where there's a level of continuity.

  DJ Quik

  Kids, Years, Games

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