Quotes About Influence

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.

Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock.

I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines.

Miles Davis himself, I discovered him when I was 15, and he rocked my world.

My dad loved jazz, so there was a little Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Donny Hathaway. My mum is French, so she'd listen to a lot of French music, but a lot of the music that actually formed my taste, I just found online.

Interestingly enough Miles Davis was an influence, and the way he approached harmonics. And one of my biggest influences was Dionne Warwick, early Dionne Warwick.

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

One of my main people I look up to is Meek Mill.

The first artists i was ever introduced to was Meek Mill and IAmSu!

The reason why Millennials are inspiring is what they give: the music they give.

Above all, we want Millennials to realize that they can have an impact on the world and that, in the course of empowering others, they can also empower themselves.

I don't want to be just a lifestyle guru for the millennials.

You can't build a strong future for millennials or young people just based on social media. If so, they'd be all secure with Mr. Trudeau, who is very good at social media.

God, I just love 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium,' by A. B. Yehoshua. My favorite novel by an American Jew is probably 'Humboldt's Gift.'

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.