Quotes About Influence

I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

Antoine 'Fats' Domino was a 1950s rock n' roll pioneer, a larger-than-life New Orleans figure, and a role model for the African-American community in a time of deep segregation.

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

You look at the pioneers that have paved the way for players like myself. Sometimes, you just sit back and scratch your head.

During our formative years, it was all about, 'What did Metallica do?' and 'How do we do that?' and then you try and find an identity of your own, but they're still... They were the pioneers and the trailblazers.

R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.

I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.

I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.

To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.

Lil Jon was definitely a pioneer for some of the punk-rap acts we see now. He showed you could scream on a song and still have a hit on the radio.

Letting the greens dictate your energy choices, whether it's halting the XL Pipeline or fracking in New York, isn't just bad economics. It can also leave your rivals and enemies controlling your energy destiny.

Once I saw Roddy Piper I knew exactly what I was going to be doing when I grew up.

I owe a lot to Roddy Piper.

I don't want to be the Pied Piper of fast food.

I loved 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper. I love the guys that can talk. I'm a big fan of The Rock, but I'm also a fan of Coach.

There's something about the pipes that just connects with Scots, they go mental for it - it's in our DNA somehow.

I know a lot of grime artists started off on pirate radio, but I missed that era; I was way too young.

I am Pisces, with Aries on the ascent. I couldn't have done all I've done in my life if it hadn't been for Aries.

It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.

When I say I saw shotguns and pistols in the house, I saw them. It was what I grew up around.

We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely.

On the pitch, I conduct and organise. I'm loud.

When I get on that pitch, I want to make an impact. That's all I can say.

My grandmother introduced me to B.B. King. She wasn't someone who had a lot of posters, but there was a big poster of B.B. King on the wall as soon as you walked into her house in Meridian, Mississippi.