Quotes About Influence

When my first record came out, it was in the middle of the real Muse, Keane, British thing, and that beat-driven thing wasn't really that cool at the moment.

A lot of times, I was about to get a role, but then somebody called. The father or mother would call and a starlet would get it. If somebody is with someone and the heroine is his muse or girlfriend, then she would get the role. All this has happened to me.

To be honest with you, my mom never really wore makeup when I was growing up. She wasn't really my makeup muse. It was my grandma. The biggest thing that she taught me is that it doesn't matter how your makeup comes out, it's really just how you wear it. If you carry it like you killed your makeup, then that's all that matters.

It's amazing to be an incubator. Many of my muses have gone on to other brands.

My mother and grandmother... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word.

All actors are muses for their directors.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

What does culture mean? It's not a physical thing. I love a museum, but that, for me, doesn't make you a better person.

Kraftwerk has become historic and is now exposed in museums.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.

My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

Being in the music business, if we couldn't pull the fashions from designers and if designers couldn't use artists to show off their fashions, where would we be?

The music business inspires designers, and designers inspire the music business.

Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood.

I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but people who like music. Both of my parents can play the piano. They were very good dancers, which I am not.

Well, I was a real late-comer to listen to music, actually, because my parents - first of all, my parents weren't big music fans. They didn't listen to music. We didn't really listen to stuff in the house.

I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

I definitely like making my friends in the music industry.

That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.