Quotes About Influence

We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop.

'The Avengers' happened because I'm friends with Joss Whedon, and he sort of brought me into the mix when they were looking for Maria Hill.

Politics generally doesn't mix with sports very well.

Hermione Granger is the mix of brain and heart that I've always wanted to be.

I like to mix influences from different eras, like maybe '70s bell-bottoms, something fun from the '80s, or a bit of '90s grunge.

I want to have Congolese influences but also influences from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and France. To mix everything up.

Politics and music should only mix to a point. Me, I think my job as a musician is to make people try to forget about all that.

My parents weren't into fashion. I didn't have an eccentric granny who mixed lace mantillas with tweed.

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

People say money changes people. So does ego and so does social media. And so does the press. I think that all of that mixed in between - you really gotta keep yourself grounded.

I feel like I've mixed my Middle Eastern and Western loves together.

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.

Congress started mixing politics with religion. BJP perfected it.

I don't feel like I sound like anybody from Houston. I don't really feel like I have that Houston flow, that Houston sound. I feel like it's a mixture of all the things I've listened to growing up, or even my mom, in a way. I feel like I have my own style.

American music is always best when it comes from a mixture of things.

Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn't play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went into my mam's bedroom because she had a double mirror, and I wanted to see what the back of my hair was doing. She had an alarm-clock radio, and it came on with this old guy moaning and hollering, playing this strange guitar.

An audience can become a mob very easily.

Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are.

My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience.

I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out.

I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'

Most artists value my opinion a lot, and I think that's due to 'Beast Mode.'