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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
Kate Bush / Singer-Songwriter
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One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
Lou Reed / Musician
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I try not to look at my old stuff or my new stuff, really. I'm not a fan.
Tig Notaro / Film Writer
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
Gail Z. Martin / Writer
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I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.
Brett Davern / Theatre Actor
Marvin
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Temptation
Robinson
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I like watching old stuff. I like old Al Pacino movies. 'Serpico.' 'Dog Day Afternoon.'
Rj Cyler /
Afternoon
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There's money in the old stuff, but there's more wealth created in the new growth areas.
Mark V. Hurd / Executive
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
Eberhard Weber / Bassist
Music
Classical Music
Contemporary
Lovers
Music Lover
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We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
Monica Edwards / Writer
Age
Technology
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Time Age Technology
Electronic
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I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
Mark Hoppus / Musician
Expecting
Missing
Old Stuff
Records
Stuff
Record Store
Store
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Pro wrestling fans love surprises, so let's surprise them, and not just give them the old stuff.
Jake Hager /
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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 / Game Programmer
Honest
Looks
Old Stuff
Pinball
Program
Stuff
Look Better Feel
To Be Honest
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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.
Ziggy Marley / Musician
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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.
Bernard Sumner /
Musician
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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.
Noel Clarke / Actor
British
Important
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Stuff
Thinking
Me Important Doing
Batch
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Me New Important
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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.
Juicy J / Rapper
New Songs
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Comics fans want new stuff that looks exactly like the old stuff. It is hard for the publishers, and even the audience, to change something.
Greg Rucka / Comic Book Writer
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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.
Tracy Lawrence / Musical Artist
Frank
Gaga
New Stuff
Old Stuff
Iggy
Lady
Lady Gaga
Sinatra
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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.
Mike Daniels /
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Significant
Something New
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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 / Interior Designer
Boots
Jeans
Leather
Leather Jackets
Old Stuff
Ties
Wear
Jacket
Jean
Marc
Tend
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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 / Musician
Entertainment
Old Stuff
Song
Stuff
Vinyl
Hardly
Mine
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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.
Evan Ross / Actor
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I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff. So I do very, very little of it.
Ron White / Stand-Up Comedian
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I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.
Caroline Shaw /
Digging
Highlighting
New Music
Old Stuff
Love Future Music
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Twisting
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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 / Author
Men
Applause
Old Stuff
Six
Years
Repeat
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Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
Barbara Hambly / Novelist
Digital
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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. / Writer
Depression
Heartbreak
Cleaning
Disappointment
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Stuff
Writing
Disappointments
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Unable
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I always laugh when I listen to my old stuff. I was just trying way too much back then. Doing too many harmonies and too many runs and all the crazy stuff. Rapping all funny and animated.
Bryson Tiller /
Animated
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Rapping
Harmonies
Runs
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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.
Josef Albers / Artist
Horizontal
Intensity
Lines
Old Stuff
Submit
Vertical
Leading
Suddenly
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I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.
Afrojack / Music Producer
Combination
Gaga
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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.
Richard P. Feynman / Physicist
Funny
Fun
Interesting
Interesting Things
Old Stuff
Practice
Something New
Stuff
Unlikely
Discover
Further
Heck
Relations
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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.
Eric Burdon / Singer-Songwriter
Careful
Cooking
Distasteful
Eggs
Insert
New Stuff
Old Stuff
Peppers
People New Know
Otherwise
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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 / Entrepreneur
Direct
Discovery
Old Stuff
People
Remix
Waiting
Deliver
World People Important
Rewarded
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I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.
Peter Falk / Actor
Architecture
Chicago
Cities
New Stuff
Old Stuff
Love Best Great
Reminds
York
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One thing that was frustrating to us, always, was having to do so much press building up an album, and you're asked so many questions about, you know, is it more melodic, is it heavier, are you doing your old stuff, is it new?
M. Shadows / Musician
Frustrating
Old Stuff
New Doing Always
Heavier
Melodic
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Dramatic
New Stuff
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Song
Stories
White
Quite
Atmospheric
Entire
Floyd
Sing
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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 / Musical Artist
Country
Cutting
Genre
Musical
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Radio
Teeth
Cut
Demographic
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If 'Heavy Rain' is a huge commercial success, it will show everybody in the industry that the world is sick of first-person shooters, that people are ready for an adult gaming experience. If we fail, it will say, 'Please keep making the same old stuff.'
David Cage / Musician
First Person
Gaming
Heavy
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Rain
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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.
Ellsworth Kelly / Painter
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Collage
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Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'
Garth Brooks / Singer-Songwriter
Good Chance
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Whenever we play new material, eventually some of the songs become classics themselves. They can't become that unless you play them. Any new song is not going to go down as well as some of the old stuff, because obviously the old stuff the fans know inside out.
Steve Harris /
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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 / Actor
Artist
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Thinking
Track
West
Opened
Producing
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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.
Ginuwine / Singer-Songwriter
New Stuff
Old Stuff
Participation
Something New
Best Great Always
Best Great Me
Creates
Great Show
Mix
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
Valerie June / Singer-Songwriter
Eric
Old Stuff
Alternative
Music Great New
Music Great Country
Country Music
Dolly Parton
Holds
Onto
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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 / Film Director
Challenges
Disappointed
Genre
Old Stuff
People
Trying
Always People New
Difficult People New
New Way
Presented
Specifically
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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 / Author
History
Fantasy
Interesting
Moving
Old Stuff
Reading
Seems
Stuff
Too Much
Writing
Bit
Read
Recycle
Move
Start
Westerns
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