Quotes About Influence

I like 'Salty Dog' by Procol Harum.

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

The first time I heard Sam Cooke was in the 'Malcom X' film. I was with my father, and that's the first time I heard his song. I remember my father telling me the story of Sam Cooke.

I love Sam Peckinpah.

Sam Shepard is - I didn't tell this to Sammy, but if I had to point to one artist that made me want to do this for my life, it's Sam Shepard.

Without Merlin, there would be no Gandalf, so I see them as the same thing, one a continuation of the other.

I listen to the same things that a lot of my fans do, and I grew up in much the same way they're growing up.

I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.

The small Satan left and the great Satan came.

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

Whether we like it or not, we don't choose Saudi Arabia's leaders. They do.

Saudi Arabia is an important country to the United States.

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

The one moment above all that fans bring up from my career when they run into me is the Savage match. Here it is, 30 years later, and everywhere I go that's what people want to talk about.

Even God can't save Tamil Nadu if Jayalalithaa comes back to power again.

I'm kind of like both of them: My mother grew up wanting to save the world, and my father grew up wanting to rule the world.

Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.

In my whole career, all I wanted was acceptance from Kid Cudi. I don't care about nothing else! This dude saved my life.

I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!

People say to me about my music 'it got me through college, it saved my marriage, it helped me to come out.' It's wonderful to be part of someone's life in a big way.'

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'

This is what life is like with the Clintons. It is one scandal after another, and you never know what's coming next. They use the system to enrich themselves.