Quotes About Influence

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day

When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

There will never be another Michael Jackson, a huge pop star since (the age of) 7.

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.