Quotes About Influence

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'

If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today.

I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.

I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar.

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

Are you really into pop? Are you really into old country? Blues? If you're not honest about your influences, then things don't sound as real as they can be. They're not as sharp a cheddar cheese as they can be. And I'm trying to be the sharpest cheddar I can be.

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

I'm just old enough to be able to say I got those very first Beatles records right as they were hitting America. My father brought them home. It was definitely the earliest musical influence on my life, and still one of the greatest.

What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.

Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now.

Lata Mangeshkar is an old friend. I knew her through my father Aparesh Lahiri who was a music director in Calcutta.

Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.

If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life.

My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles, respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.

I watched a lot of old movies, and a lot of Carol Burnett and Andy Kaufman.

I really like the grittiness of early Amon Tobin - I'm a huge fan of his old music, and I tried to borrow from it, not emulate it. I don't love my own original work.

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.

I look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.'