When I want to work on my material, I go to Benihana or…

Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.

— Charles E. Burchfield

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

— Alan Bradley

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

— Bela Fleck

It's so important to work with material you can really mold and milk and create and evolve.

— Jamie Chung

I constantly work with material that could be two years old, five years old, ten years old, as well as new things.

— Tobias Forge

Every time I go work out material, I bomb more than I do good.

— Deon Cole

“What I'm here for is to work with the material, and to work with it the best way that I can. And in doing…

— bell hooks

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own…

— Truman Capote

I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.

— Patrick J. Adams

I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.

— Robert Redford

It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was…

— Mark Doty

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

— Karl Kraus

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who…

— Pablo Picasso

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

— George Clinton