Quotes About Influence

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.

When I was in Buffalo, Fred Jackson was you know, I would say he was a big mentor of mine and when I was in Miami, I probably picked apart Brian Hartline, Davone Bess, those guys.

I wanted to be like some of the other young ladies that were in my school. I used to get picked on in church. Nobody wants to hang out with me. I want to hang out with the cool girls, and I started to take the wrong turn and do things I knew wasn't right.

I first picked up a guitar at seven after watching Dad play at backyard barbecues.

My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.

When I was younger I started dancing. I picked it up off a couple of mates who were body-popping.

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

I don't pick the leader of another party. Likud picked Netanyahu.

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.

My editor picked out the name she wanted. I was either going to be Kim Harrison or Lisa Harrison, because she wanted me shelved right next to Hamilton.

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they hadn't been assassinated.

Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

It's funny: when I started playing bass in 1984, you had guys like Paul Simonon fron the Clash, John Paul Jones, Lemmy, and Nikki Sixx was the head guy in Motley Crue, and you had all this post-punk stuff like Magazine and Killing Joke where the bass sort of lead the way. Not that I picked it to sort of be a main dude, but it intrigued me.

My brother was a left-hander. When I was young, my father would say take your brother's gloves and pads and play, so I picked up the bat left-handed.

I've had this conversation with Chrissie Hynde and Courtney Love. If they'd dated the men they dated before they picked up their guitars, things would have been different. I'm not trying to name drop, but I've had this conversation with Cher, too, who has more last names than Zsa Zsa.

If the money's equal between the Rockets and Mavericks, I think players are picking Houston. Every time.

If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.

I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.