Quotes About Influence

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

Exchange is creation.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.