Quotes About Influence

My family had no money or social connections with the music industry but I came to London and had some success that continues to influence my life.

I'm always gonna be a part of the industry. I may just not be a part of the music industry as Scarface.

I want to be a a good influence to other people and in the music scene.

Atlanta is a huge part of the music scene and a large part of Hollywood now.

The first musical thing I remember someone recommending to me is probably Ludacris - the one where he has massive arms in the music video. 'Get Back.' It was recommended to me by my cousin, who's now my manager.

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

I come from a musical kind of family.

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

I'm just a consequence of the great musical momentum and the great changes we are going through in the world.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.

It's been in my musical DNA since I was a little kid. I think musical theatre has really influenced everything I've done.

My mother was majorly into musical theatre - that's how this happened. That's how I became the gayest person in the world.

Michael Jackson is the greatest musical influence on me. He's my man. Musically, he is the one artist I want to be like.

Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.

I think the Congolese music is more important in the African community that Rwandan. You know, Rwanda is not musically really important in Africa. It's interesting, of course. But Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.