Quotes About Influence

My experience working the KKK assignment influenced the rest of my career in law enforcement in that it taught me to think and act on my own initiative when my superiors in the department stood in my way.

Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.

If you look at South Africa and President Nelson Mandela, it was people of the world who held their hands together and stood up to make a difference. So 'people power' is important.

I effectively stood on the shoulders of a giant to make a little bit of noise myself. I'm a by-product of Muhammad Ali.

Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

As much as I love Antonioni films, I love the Three Stooges.

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

I think I misunderstood the following in the footsteps bit, in a few of my early drinking years. I'd take any form of being compared to Dad as flattery. So if I fell off a stool or smashed up a TV set just because I was drunk, and somebody in the bar went 'Hey, man, that was just like Bonzo!' I would be really happy.

I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

Sam Cooke had a huge influence on me. He left the gospel field at one point and went into the secular, and he had this huge hit, 'You Send Me.' Irma, my older sister, and I heard 'You Send Me' on the radio while we were driving through the South one night. We had to stop the car. We got out and danced around the car out on the highway.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

I can never stop thanking God because my music influences people in their respective lives.

The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

The machine of repression can only be started, it can't be stopped - even by Putin.

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never got my diploma. When I went to prison, it's mandatory to get your GED if you don't have a high school diploma.

My mam and dad were blasting Steely Dan when I was born; the music hasn't stopped since then.

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.