Quotes About Influence

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.

Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician.

I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of growing up, becoming a musician, so it's like first-love stuff; I'm always going to go back to it.

I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.

Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.

Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.

Thelonious Monk was one of the musicians I most connected with early on. I'm a huge Betty Carter fan, and the way that Abbey Lincoln and Shirley Horn grew immensely from the time they were young is so inspirational.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect.

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists.

Our parents were musicians.

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

There's a lot of older musicians who say your whole life making music, you're really trying to get back to that first couple of things you liked when you were a kid. And as much as you might like to think you're not, you really are.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

Both of my parents were musicians.

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.