Quotes About Influence

A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience.

Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth.

I'm a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I'm just a product of my environment.

I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

I think it would be bad for storytellers in general if one company was able to seize a 40-50-60% share in storytelling. I don't think monopoly market shares are good for society, and I think they'd be particularly bad for society and storytellers if they were achieved in the storytelling genre.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.

I don't care what we're quote-unquote selling; we're about inspiring people through storytelling.

Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to.

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling.

I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.

Eminem has been someone that I've always considered the greatest ever, to ever do it. You know what I mean? In every aspect, the storytelling abilities, lyrical ability, honesty. You can hear it in my music that I'm heavily influenced by that.

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

A ruler isn't always straight.

From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

I hear from all different people, not just people like me, or lesbians. It be straight people, it be grown men, it be grown women, people that have been sick or depressed that say, 'Oh, you made me want to go do what I want to do for myself and chase my dreams.' That's my purpose.

I had some bad influences in my time and, if my parents weren't there to straighten me out, things might have gone haywire.