Quotes About Influence

My introduction to sports was through baseball. That's all I knew.

All of my football, even my introduction, even my coaches, most of them came from Europe, particularly England. So pretty much my whole footballing education and introduction was through English football.

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

Cultural appropriation is a big problem, but the thing is, I didn't invent my life. I really lived in Africa.

If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

Trip-hop? That's never existed and they say I invented it. Trip-hop is just hip-hop with a girl singing on top.

The Laffer Curve, by the way, was not invented by me.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

The laugh track was invented to cue the audience to the jokes and encourage laughter in response. But it has another effect: if you hear people laughing and you're not, you start to question if maybe there's something wrong with you for not getting it.

The best designers are French - we all know that. That's a fact, I'm not inventing anything.

I grew up in a weird environment. My mother's head of the home video division, basically. She played a big role in the invention of DVD - she won an Emmy for it. Or rather, she's part of a group that won an Emmy for it.

I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an inventor, in a sense - as well as being great artist.

Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop?

One thing that we've invested a lot of in, that we all live by, is the power of the commissioner.

Certain people and groups seem invested in convincing black people that black people are liberal. We've traditionally been conservative, church-going people.

Word - that invisible dagger.

After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back.

Most of my colleagues have research awards on the shelf. I have party invites.

If I could throw a dinner party for anyone, I'd invite Lena Dunham, Dave Chappelle, and Gena Rowlands.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

Much of political decision-making concentrates power in the hands of those already inside the circle, who tend to be men. Excluding women may not be the intention, but when they are not invited into the room where decisions are made, you can see how it happens.