Quotes About Influence

I think if all three of my boys get on the Lakers somehow, they would change the NBA.

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

Not all the actors get a chance to leave a landmark.

I wasn't part of the BeyHive before I met her, but after my experience working with her, meeting her, I'm a die-hard fan.

Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world.

My father would schedule meetings over breakfast. Film-makers such as Rakesh Roshan and Prakash Jha have seen me as a child run around the house.

Antonio Pena, the founder of AAA, and I worked together in 2002/2003. I have worked with the Pena family for years. I am the longest-reigning non-Mexican Mega Champion.

That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.

I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother.

The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

In 'Kill Rock n' Roll,' the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part, you can hear a melody and a harmony there that's not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there's heavy guitars in the back.

The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.

Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.

It's only when you're privy to the conversations and a member of the production team that you can direct the course of a series and make sure it flourishes.