Quotes About Influence

My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet.

Schoolkids - black and white - would call me Kunta Kinte as a cuss. If ever my hair was particularly messy, if ever I looked scruffy at school, I would be called Kunta Kinte. My first impression was that it was bad to be African and bad to be associated with him.

Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? Nobody's interested. They want to know you met Rihanna. And that kills me.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

'Jab We Met' is the reason why I have become an actress.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

Try to leave people feeling better for having met you.

I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

It's a dream come true for me to be an idol for those kids. One little moment from my life that I spend with that kid, he might remember that for the rest of his life, that he met me that day when he was 10 years old.

The first president I met was L. B. J.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke - the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal.

Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic.

When heavy metal was really big in the '80s, it was huge, and then it kind of waned down and kind of came back.

I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.

My dad raised me on metal, but my first serious love was hip-hop.

My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, '80s hair metal. But I think there's that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don't want to listen to your parents' music.

Metallica is a big, huge influence and inspiration. That's who Babymetal aspires to become some day.

Without Metallica, we wouldn't have a lot of the bands that we have now.

I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.