Quotes About Influence

My father was stationed in Italy in the military. I had no one to feed me what was cool, so I was into Guns N' Roses and New Kids on the Block and MC Hammer and a lot of '80s hair bands. But I was never into Motley Crue, they never stuck with me.

Motley Crue was actually my gateway to heavy metal.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

I think my parents are the first influence on me music-wise. My dad was into Motown and soul, and my mom was into British '80s pop, like The Trashcan Sinatras. I grew up on that. It was great. They were the first people to really bring music into my life.

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

I think it's all about the music you listen to along the way. For me, my parents always played Motown music and The Beatles, so I was drawn to the soul.

I grew up with Cher and Motown, beautiful costumes.

My introduction to Motown was through The Jackson Five and Michael Jackson. Michael's been my greatest creative inspiration, so that's how I really became familiar with Motown as a whole, and as I got older, I learned far more about the other groups.

I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown.

My folks had a lot of Motown records, so that was a kind of an early inspiration. I grew up on the radio really.

I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound.

The first writers I knew about were Motown's Holland-Dozier-Holland.

My mum used to listen to Motown. Diana Ross was my first singing teacher, really. I'd just sing along all the time.

One of my idols is my dad. All his work in Motown, and just the way he conducted himself as a human being was always interesting to me, and it seemed like the successful way, and it is a successful way, and I always wanted to do that. He's funny, and all that stuff.

I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot of classical music. I just loved all of that.

In short, money with strings is worth less than money without strings—sometimes a lot less.

Los incentivos son relevantes porque la mayoría de las personas tienden a hacer más por su beneficio que por el beneficio de otros. Los incentivos hacen que ambas consideraciones coincidan. Una camarera nos sirve comida no porque tengamos hambre, sino porque su salario y propinas dependen de ello. Ante la ausencia de estos incentivos, el servicio en los restaurantes de la Unión Soviética era notoriamente malo.

The promotion of self-esteem in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things — and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

Cuando la libre competencia en el mercado es reemplazada por la intervención de un tercero que obliga a las empresas a facilitar las cosas a sus competidores, cuesta ver cómo esto puede ayudar a la competencia, y no simplemente a los competidores

were now not only affluent themselves but were also able to help family members-hut only so long as they stayed in office.'-