Quotes About Influence

Where Charlie Christian left off, Papoose started a new thing; he was an innovator of the guitar. The things he did during his recording career with Fats Domino in the Fifties and Sixties until the day he died was as much a part of the music of New Orleans as anybody else has had to offer.

I remember 'The Norfolk Journal and Guide,' which is a black newspaper that still exists, but it was really influential, as you can imagine, in the Forties, Fifties, and Sixties. But all of their archives are online and digitized, and it was a really great resource.

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really progressive.

As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.

I love the Sixties and all those iconic women, Bridget Bardot and things like that, so I tend to lean towards those sorts of things.

If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.

You need to be intent on reducing size, scope, and influence of government.

It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections.

I'm kind of a dirty guy, a little Bill Laimbeer-ish. Those are the guys I used to watch growing up. I used to watch Karl Malone; now I watch Boozer and Elton Brand and try to emulate those guys as much as possible because those guys are about the same size as me.

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.

Opportunities come in all shapes and sizes but, more importantly, make way for us to make good decisions that have a roll-on effect for others.

I would never represent a brand that didn't represent different shapes and sizes.

I grew up watching PRod and Chris Cole. To be able to skate with them in competition is an honor.

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.

Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.

So much of my life and my style and sensibility are influenced by skateboarding. It's counter-culture and skateboarding is my introduction to counter-culture.

There would not be Skaters or Emeralds or any of these bands if it weren't for Double Leopards.