Quotes About Influence

I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.

Michael Bloomberg has yet to get his due for engineering the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Michael Jackson is so unique, and I look up to him and try to imbibe as much from him and marry it to my own style.

For as long as I can remember, I've had John Michael Higgins in my brain in the funny department.

I've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald, and so many others - that it would take a page or two to list them all.

Apart from Michael Jackson, the only man I look upto and admire his dancing skills is Prabhudheva.

I'm a huge Michael Lewis fan.

I am a huge Michael Jackson fan.

None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't make music so you could go check out Sam Cooke.

I wanted to be Michael Jackson as a kid.

Michael Jackson's one of my favorite artists of my whole life. In fact, I think he is my favorite. It's one of the first things I fell in love with before I learned about genres and before I knew what was cool to like.

When I listen to Michael Buble, it's exciting; it's inspiring. I feel the same way with Michael Feinstein or Ryan Adams.

You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

One of my dear friends became Michael Jordan. That gave me a lot of access there. But I had access to everybody from Larry Bird to Magic Johnson to all of the other guys.

If I would compare anybody to Michael Jordan, it would be Kobe Bryant.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

I think we always look up to legends and people who not only win but give us a larger than life role model... I think Michael Jordan is this, someone who became bigger than his sport.

When I was young, I didn't watch basketball, but I watched 'Space Jam' with Michael Jordan so he was my favorite player.

When I was in college going through the draft process my dad was like, 'Hey Michael Jordan loves your game,' I'm like dad? This is before social media; this is before any of that so I'm like, 'Dad, get out of here, there's no way you can know that Michael Jordan likes my game.'

Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.

I think that what streamers have is a direct connection to their audience. Imagine if LeBron James or Michael Jordan could interact directly with their audience every time they went to work.

Since I was a kid, I dreamed of making it to the league and having the type of impact on the game Michael Jordan had and continues to have today.