Quotes About Influence

When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton John and Alice Cooper.

Everybody either hates or loves John Cena; there's no medium. I feel like that I've accomplished something when I get people to cheer for John Cena. I feel like I've done something.

But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.

John Belushi made me want to be an actor.

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

I am not John Lennon; I never will be!

John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.

It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.

I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.

Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 100 of them, they made a bit of a name for me at the time, so that part of my life was very good.

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

The only two jobs I ever had were with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash.

When I was 5 years old, I got my first record. It was 'Flatt & Scruggs' Greatest Hits.' The second was 'The Fabulous Johnny Cash.'

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me.

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.