Quotes About Influence

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

I have friends my age who started smoking pot when they got out of college. They didn't get anywhere. But if they drank, they managed to go somewhere. Does that make sense?

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.

If anything I think we connect to what our parents were listening to when they were our age. I'm listening to a lot of classical and electronic music, like Aphex Twin, non-vocal music.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people's understanding can expand more easily.

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

I've been a fan of 'Rocky Horror'... my mom let me see it at a really early age.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

I'm more than happy to say that I am a part of the return of Rock n' Roll.And that what we have to say means so much to these amazing people.