Quotes About Influence

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.

I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

Dostoyevsky was an influence - what's his name, the saintly priest in 'The Brothers Karamazov,' Father Zossima... 'Kiss the earth,' he'd say. Love everything.

So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.

Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate.

We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.

You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that.

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter Niro the jazz pianist. I loved international music: Irish music, Mexican music. I love the different colours that they all have.

I really like Pat Parker. I really like Audre Lorde. I read a lot of the Beats when I was younger, so Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder. I've been discovering a lot more modern poems as well.

Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica' was one of the pivotal records.

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.

Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be out of a job. A black president can't end black misery; a black president can't be a civil rights leader or primarily a crusader for racial justice.

We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.

I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective.

I love the 'Black Album' because I think it was the beginning of something, primarily. I'd met Metallica, and I'd heard Metallica before that, but when I heard the 'Black Album,' I actually had a response rather like I did with 'Sgt. Pepper.'

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.