Quotes About Influence

We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to.

Of course I have my father guiding me, and I have people who I have actually grown up with and who advise me.

Wherever I go, I know my dad is guiding my path.

Guilt by association is part of campaigning.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.

I've been playing a Fender since 1963, and before that it was my dream guitar. I can't endorse it more than that.

There's every other guitar player and then there's Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet Atkins on you once in a lifetime.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.

Go big or go home.' I used to say that. I was addicted to that. The lifestyle, the fame. The girls. The parties. And with that came a lot of people who didn't really care about me. They were just leeches. Just very bad people. I had to learn a lot. I was very gullible.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

I was really into 'Cocktail' when I was younger - probably the most - followed by 'Top Gun.'

I loved 'Top Gun.' I watched it all growing up.

Little kid see a cartoon character with a gun, he going to want to carry a gun, right?

I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.

I called my show 'Power' because, for me, the whole series is about the way my main character, Ghost, is power-less over his circumstances, even though he has almost endless access to money and guns.

I feel like kids naturally love guns, so I was drawn to that.

I'm proud to be part of Guru Duttji's films.

When I watched Guru Dutt's films, they just blew my mind.

One does not become a guru by accident.

I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.