Quotes About Influence

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.

People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.

I'm a fan of Otis Redding. I've sat around trying to copy some of his phrasing and learn from him, but it kinda falls short.

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.

I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.

When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.

The beautiful thing about it is that 'Despacito' is not really an English crossover. It was just another song that the world made a crossover. I didn't really push it; it just kinda went there.

I would like to say that OVO, me being on OVO, they kinda protect me from the industry, so I'm not around it. I'm not around it unless I choose to be, or unless I ask to be.

I was a fan of DMC but I was captivated by Run's style, I wanted to be the man. As a kid, when somebody got that kinda influence over a child... you know how strong that can be.

Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.

People of power have to show empathy and kindness to the young.

J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.

I love the interaction with different kinds of people. I like to shake things up, make a difference.

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

When I started my career, I started with black comics: Bruce Bruce, Mark Curry, Bill Bellamy. It takes all kinds of influences.

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

Whether it be a sage or a king, all have been borne by women.

Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

I'm the king of the anthems.

When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.