Quotes About Influence

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.

I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

You live in my head all the time.

I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome.

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.

Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

Tommy Dorsey was the last of the band leaders... He was ahead of his time; if he got drunk, he got difficult, but then who the hell isn't difficult when you get drunk.

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time.

You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

At some point in time, in the future, people are going to refer to the Step Up films as the films they grew up on. Hopefully, that inspires them to get in dance films that are being made.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.