Quotes About Influence

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.

If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising.

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.

We live in a time where brands are people and people are brands.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

Link Wray is the all-time legend.

The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.