Quotes About Influence

If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.

I heard people compare me to Cristiano Ronaldo.

Hearing Radney Foster was big for me, like hearing Al Green or R.E.M. for the first time.

My mom loves the '80s. I grew up hearing a lot about the '80s.

Some people's parents listened to the Beatles... but my family is Alquimia, Celia Cruz, and Carlos Vives - this old, rich Colombian music. I loved hearing that while I was growing up.

I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.

I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.

Man, I loved The Smiths so much. I thought they looked awesome, and Morrissey had hearing aids like my Papaw.

Anything that a man hears is sexy is gold to him.

There's something magical that happens to every three-year-old that hears 'Ring of Fire.' That's usually where it starts for most people. They immediately want to put on a black shirt, grab a guitar and sing 'Ring of Fire.'

Because I grew up around the reality and heartbreak of acting, I didn't want to have anything to do with it.

Garage has been the big influence in my life. It was the first music that I started MCing to and I really used to look up to Heartless Crew.

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.

Politics should be done by earning love and affection and by winning the hearts.

I want to be associated with content and characters that will be embedded in the hearts and minds of people for a long time.

I think that religious culture and the industry of religion pretty much deserves most of the heat that it gets.

My first love was Heath Ledger.

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.

I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

I listened to Korn and Limp Bizkit and that whole era of heavy music.