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“Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.” - Richard Hell

“If you’re going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There’s nothing metaphysical about it.” - Frank O’Hara

“If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.” - Bob Geldof

“I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.” - Christopher Isherwood

“Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.” - Bryan Ferry

“The strong one doesn’t win, the one that wins is strong.” - Franz Beckenbauer

“The best is that which is most spontaneous or seemingly so.” - Isamu Noguchi

“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.” - Edward R. Murrow

“Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.” - Mike Wallace

“As a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper because he lives life and he understands what he’s trying to say a little more.” - Sam Cooke

“Rock and roll has probably given more than it’s taken.” - Charlie Watts

“It’s when they stop copying, that’s when we’re really in trouble.” - Calvin Klein

“I mean there’s no magic about fashion, fashion is made by people.” - Halston

Your Morning Shot: Perry Ellis

“I think fashion dies when it is taken too seriously.”

Your Morning Shot: Yves Saint Laurent

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.”