Quotes About Influence

I know my dad would have loved me to have played rugby. He was a No. 8. I started off playing centre and ended up playing at the back of the scrum, No. 8 as well, just picking it up and running with it.

Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

So, my records really didn't sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and that turned into a gold mine.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

History picks interesting messengers.

A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

I'm cool with Dr. Dre, I have his phone number, and he picks up when I call.

I haven't done many commercials, and I'm very picky about it because it comes down to creative control.

We become like the five people we spend most of our time with; Oh, we've got to be picky, and you might have to fire a few people who don't belong in that inner circle because they can't help you be your best and further your purpose.

I met Snoop through church when we was, like, 13 or 14. You know, they had them little church picnics and basketball games, and that's where I got to know him.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

There are pictures of me in a Dos Caras mask when I was 3 years old.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

Anna Wintour doesn't deal with pictures; she is just doing PR and business, and she scares everybody.

In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.'

The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

My fingers are always in every single pie.