Quotes About Influence

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

We shouldn't limit the idea of 'policy recommendations' to regulators. On the Internet, all of us are, in a sense, policymakers.

No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion.

A huge number of women are shopping for beauty products based on recommendations from friends, and we really look to be that friend.

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called 'Marvin Gaye.'

I grew up with 'best-of' cassettes. My first Smiths record was 'Hatful Of Hollow,' and I had hits albums by Elton John and The Cars.

If you break an individual record, it's because of the greatness that comes before you.

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.

You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you've got the record companies calling the shots. I think it has to be a bit of both to make the thing work.

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

When you're 17 and a record label says, 'Hey, do pop,' you listen.

Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I'd written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It's very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost.

George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise.