Quotes About Influence

As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.

Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He's just really cool.

My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.

My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

Musicians - we're not doctors. We're not saving people's lives. We're not going out and changing the world. We're not coming up with cancer cures. We're not any of that. They're the real heroes of the world.

I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

Cliff Gallup is one of my heroes; I'd dearly love to meet him.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

I never grew up with heroes in show business. My hero was my father.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

I had both male and female heroes.

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.

'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

To me, I think it's awesome to meet your heroes and find out who they are and where they came from and what made them choose to communicate in the form that connected with you.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Richard Burton is one of my heroes.

I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people.

I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.